Day 14 - Lagazuoi

Well, it dawned rainy wet and with thunder in the air. Maybe a fully blown via ferrate is not wise

What is Via ferrate?

Well, you basically walk/scramble up in the mountain, but you attach yourself to a thick steel wire so if you fall you don’t fall right off the mountain. Just a meter or so.

Originally they were created to allow soldiers to get to inaccessible parts of the mountain to be able to attack other soldiers. (Italians and Austro-Hungarians during the First World War, if you really want to know).

Today there are lots of ones that are just for fun, but they allow walkers to get places that only multi-pitch climbers would be able to get to normally, so its high, exposed and a shed load of fun!

Well, we left the campsite, along with its ghostly figures…we didn’t understand either… and drove to investigate an open air museum, and mucheos funeos we had.

Being poor students, we decided to walk to the top, and walk down again, rather than getting the Gondola to the top, and what a wise decision it was.

We walked upwards inside the mountain, through tunnels constructed in the 1910’s by Italians, and finally emerged onto the summit of Lagazuoi, which was the first for Jess’s new bag, and Jess’s highest summit (she didn’t actually technically summit in Nepal…).

Then, we wondered back down the Austrian Troop path, which was lots of fun, including cool bridges in the mist…

And lizards

And marmots