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These New Via Ferrata Routes Are the Most Challenging in North America — and They’re in a Mountain Town Nicknamed the 'Little Switzerland of America’
To put it simply, a via ferrata is a fixed climbing route made up of metal rungs drilled into rock. Climbers can scale sheer ...
How to slay one of North America's toughest Via Ferrata's
Kicking Horse Mountain Resort in Golden, British Columbia, is known for some of the most challenging ski terrain and vertical ...
British Mountaineering Council6mon
How to climb Via Ferratas
Via Ferrata are routes through what may often appear to be inaccessible ground, opened up by the placing of metal rungs or footplates and protected by a continuous wire cable. This cable may also be ...
PlanetMountain11y
Via Ferrata Piz da Lech and Sassongher normal route: renovation works in Alta Badia
Throughout summer 2013 the mountain guide group "Alta Badia Guides" based in Corvara, Italy, completely renovated two of the valley's most popular outings, the normal route to the summit of Sassongher ...
Sydney Morning Herald20d
No climbing experience needed for Australia’s first ‘vertical playground’
Designed as a more challenging French-inspired trail that combines traditional rock climbing with via ferrata’s signature metal cables and rungs, this second route is on track to launch in February.