Italy

Italy West (incl. Garda Mountains, Brenta, Lombardy, Piedmont / Aosta, Lake Como) more than 160 via ferrata 470 pages language german edition 2008 Sascha Hoch, Michael Rüttinger, Jörg Zitzmann Schall-Verlag

The Dolomites Located in northern Italy, and representing a true mix of Italian and Austrian culture, these so-called ‘Pale Alps’ contain climbing of every shape and size. Single pitch sport crags lie beside kilometre-long traditional routes, with climbs which are steeped in history running parallel to modern bolted lines. The area is particularly renowned for its via ferrata, cabled routes predating the Great War which give superb access to some of the World’s most striking summits. The metal wires, interspersed with breathtaking ladders and unlikely suspension bridges, provide aerial assault courses which combine the thrill of an ascent on rock with the security of a protected mountain scramble. Areas and Crags Included Catinaccio / Rosengarten Masare & Roda de Vael (Via Ferrata) Porte Neigre Cima Catinaccio Punta Emma Vajolet Towers Catinaccio d'Antermoia (Via Ferrata) Val di Fassa Franco Gadoti (Via Ferrata) Magnifici Quattro (Via Ferrata) Col Ombert / Kaiserjeger (Via Ferrata) The Val Duron - Sentiero Massimiliano (Via Ferrata) - Laurenzi - Molignon (Via Ferrata) Penia di Canazei Dei Finanzieri / Colac (Via Ferrata) Marmolada Group Passo Fedaia & Pian dei Fiacconi Marmolada West Ridge (Via Ferrata) Eterna Brigata Cadore - Punta Serauta (Via Ferrata) Marmolada - South Face Pordoi Pass Via delle Trincee - La Mesola (Via Ferrata) Cesare Piazzetta - Piz Boe (Via Ferrata) Sas Pordoi - South Face Sella Pass Sass Pordoi - North West Face Piz Ciavazes Sella Towers Delle Mèsules - Possnecker (Via Ferrata) Col Rodella (Via Ferrata) Città dei Sassi Val Gardena Odle Group Sass Rigais (Via Ferrata) Sandro Pertini (Via Ferrata) Frea Piz da Cir V Via (Via Ferrata) Tridentina Crag Eiszeit Torre Brunico & Mur de Pisciadù Brigata Tridentina (Via Ferrata) Oscura della Luna - North Face Sas Ciampac Vallon Piz da Lech (Via Ferrata) Fanis / Fanes Group Sas dla Crusc / Sasso della Croce Sasso delle Nove / Sass de les Nu Punte (Zimes) di Fanes Cima del Lago Cima Scotoni Tomaselli - Cima Fanes Sud (Via Ferrata) Lagazuoi Nord Lagazuoi Lagazuoi Piccolo Sas de Stria Sas de Stria / Hexenstein Falzarego Towers & Col dei Bos Torre Grande & Torre Piccola di Falzarego Col dei Bos / degli Alpini (Via Ferrata) Col dei Bos - South Face Tofana Group Tofana de Rozes Giovanni Lipella - Tofana di Rozes (Via Ferrata) Punta Anna & Gianni Aglio (Via Ferrata) Cinque Torri & Averau Cinque Torri - Torre Grande, Seconda, Terza / Latina, Quarta, Quinta / Inglese, Trephor, Massi. Averau (Via Ferrata) Averau South West Face Cortina d'Ampezzo basin Ettore Bovero - Col Rosa (Via Ferrata) Punta Fiames Michielli Strobel - Punta Fiames (Via Ferrata) Ski Club 18 (Via Ferrata) Ivano Dibona (Via Ferrata) Marino Bianchi - Cima di Mezzo (Via Ferrata) Sorapiss Circuit:  (Berti, Sentiero Carlo Minazio, Vandelli - Via Ferrata) Misurina Area Monte (Piz) Popena Basso Punta Col de Varda Torre Wundt Il Gobbo, Torre del Diavolo and Torre Leo Merlone - Cima del Cadin West Face (Via Ferrata) Tre Cime Cima Piccola Punta Frida Cima Piccolissima Cima Grande Cima Ovest Sentiero de Luca / Innerkofler (Via Ferrata) Delle Scalette - Torre Toblino (Via Ferrata) 496 pages language english revised edition 2024 J. Rushforth Rockfax

227 via ferrata´s for beginners 288 pages language german edition 2022 Eugen E. Hüsler, Hildegard Hüsler Bruckmann Verlag

Family climbing guides - via ferrata, climbing gardens, high ropes courses and climbing gyms 158 pages language german edition 2017 Josef Hilpod, Ladurner Christjan Athesia Tappeiner Verlag 

Via Ferrata in the spectacular walls of the Ampezzo Valley 230 pages language italian, english, german edition 2011 Francesco Cappellari Idea Montagna Editoria

Via Ferrata on Lake Garda 255 pages language italian, german, english edition 2021 Fabio Della Casa Idea Montagna

This guide includes the equipped paths and the via ferratas that progress along the Dolomite mountain reliefs that frame the three Ladin valleys of Gardena, Fassa and Badia.The description of the 43 itineraries is as detailed as possible, including the classification of technical and environmental difficulties, approach and via ferrata times, total excursion time, altitude gain, physical effort, exposure and maximum altitudes.The introduction provides historical information on the origin of the via ferratas, an explanation of the classification (which follows the Austrian scale), information on safety in the mountains and along an equipped route and the safety devices necessary.The author has personally completed the described itineraries, collecting all the useful information on the field and taking most of the photos. The guidec is completed by a detailed map of each route and a valuable drawing that illustrates the route, indicating the key passages and technical difficulties section by section.The guide is useful both for beginners who want to approach this discipline (thanks to the many easy itineraries included) and for more experienced hikers who will find here some of the most challenging routes in the Dolomites.352 pageslanguage GermanEdition 2025Marco CorrieroVersante Sud

Via Ferrata in the Dolomites of Belluno - Cadore - Zoldo - Agordino - SchiaraClimbing up the Piave Valley from Belluno to the gates of Auronzo, you immediately have the feeling of crossing a spectacular natural landscape and, at the same time, an inhabited and lively environment, exploring original villages and hamlets that have their cultural roots in a thousand years of history and admiring mountains that exude a grandiose and authentic charm. The itineraries described include not only via ferratas that cross the most famous mountain groups, but also many equipped paths that, although less famous than the Costantini, Zacchi and Alleghesi, respect the orography and the very essence of the mountains - logical and panoramic routes that have been followed for centuries by hunters and shepherds. On these paths you hike in solitude, only the sound of your own footsteps breaks the silence here. So every hiker can find his or her own via ferrata, his or her own path, whether it be challenging or sporty vertical experiences or routes over rocky outcrops and through chimneys, where the via ferrata rope is almost only a secondary safety device.nisse oder Routen über Felsvorsprünge und durch Kamine, bei denen das Klettersteigseil fast nur eine zweitrangige Sicherheitsvorrichtung ist.described via ferrata1 – Marmarole – Corno Del Doge – Cengia del Doge2 – Marmarole – Forcella Vanedel – Strada Sanmarchi3 – Marmarole – Cimon del Froppa – Forcella Marmarole4 – Marmarole – Monte Ciastelin – Sentiero dei Camosci5 – Marmarole – Cimon del Froppa – Sentiero degli Alpini e Forcella Froppa6 – Marmarole – Monte Ciarido – Sentiero Amalio Da Prà7 – Brentoni – Monte Tudaio – Sentiero dei Mede8 – Antelao – Forcella del Ghiacciaio – Ferrata del Cadorin9 – Antelao – Crode di San Piero e Croda Mandrin – Sentiero Alpinistico Attrezzato10 – Centro Cadore – Domegge – Ferrate Sportive11 – Centro Cadore – Val Prigioniera – Sentiero Attrezzato del Gufo12 – Cridola – Cresta del Miaron – Sentiero Olivato13 – Civetta – Col Reàn – Via Antersass e Scale di Ciesamatta14 – Civetta – Palazza Alta – Ferrata Fiamme Gialle15 – Civetta – Ferrata degli Alleghesi16 – Civetta – Ferrata Tissi17 – Civetta – Passo del Tenente (via normale Sentiero Tivan)18 – Moiazza – Cima Moiazza Sud – Ferrata Costantini19 – Spiz de Mezzodì – Ferrata Sora ‘l Sass e Sentiero del Belvedere20 – Prampèr – Val Pramperét – Scalet del Pissandol21 – Bosconero – Viaz de le Ponte22 – Piz de Sagron – Passo del Comedon – L’Intaiada23 – Vajont – Ferrata della Memoria24 – La Schiara – Forcella de la Gusela – Ferrata Sperti25 – La Schiara – Ferrata Zacchi e Ferrata Berti26 – La Schiara – Pelf – Ferrata Marmol (Rossi) e Ferrata Guardiano27 – Antelao – Sentiero Bortolo De Lorenzo28 – Civetta – Vant delle Nevere29 – Pelmo – Sentiero Flaibani30 – Cima Nord di San Sebastiano – Cengia del Sasso di Caleda31 – Vette Feltrine – Sentiero delle Laste32 – Vette Feltrine – Cenge del Sasso Scarnia33 – Cimònega – Val Caorame34 – Cimònega – Busa del Cadinel35 – Monte Pizzocco – Sentiero dello Scalon36 – Monti del Sole – Valle Soffia220 pagesLanguage Italian, English, GermanEdition 2015Andrea GreciIdea Montagna Editoria

Catinaccio, Marmolada, Sella, Sassolungo, Latemar: these are all names that often bring to mind the very idea of the Dolomites, names well imprinted in the collective imagination and in the minds of excursionists and mountaineers. A capillary tourist organisation, numerous ski-lifts, and an endless network of managed support points make the Fassa Dolomites one of the most easily accessible areas in the entire Alpine arc. Many of these peaks have become among the symbolic images of the Pale Mountains, just think of the Vajolet Towers, the Marmolada Glacier, the Alpe di Siusi. The most famous and technically demanding ferratas are among the most frequented in the Alps, especially those that run between the rocky bastions of the Sella group (a true crossroads of the Dolomite groups) such as the Ferrata delle Mesules, the Ferrata Piazzetta and the Ferrata Brigata Tridentina, or those that climb the rocky walls of Colac and Col Ombert. Many hikers also choose the Catinaccio d'Antermoia via ferrata or the first section of the Bepi Zac Trail because, with moderate technical difficulties, they can enjoy excursions of extraordinary charm.So what remains to be recommended in these valleys, where at times one almost has the impression of having become accustomed to beauty and its daily media representation? First of all, to use the most famous ferratas as a means of getting to know some of the most surprising mountains in the Alps, and then to try to walk the panoramic and silent Monzoni ridge, among grassy ridges, volcanic rocks and memories of the Great War, to take a very wide-ranging itinerary such as the Ferrata Ombretta, or to venture into the small rocky forest of the Vallaccia group.320 pagesLanguage Italian, English, GermanEdition 2016Andrea Greci, Federico Rossetti Idea Montagna Editoria

119 via ferrata for beginners and expertslanguage german380 pagesedition 2024Athesia Tappeiner Verlag

70 easy via ferratas between glaciers, firn and vineyards 142 pages language german edition 2013 Eugen E. Hüsler Bruckmann Verlag

The 30 most beautiful tours hiking, canoeing, cycling and via ferrata 238 pages language german edition 2014 Alfons Zaunhuber Thomas Kettler Verlag

Summit hikes, via ferrata and glacier tours for children 144 pages language german edition 2013 Christjan Ladurner Tappeiner AG

in the Karawanken, Julian and Kamnik Alps 199 pages language german edition 2014 Andrej Masera Styria Regional

Bochette in the Brenta-Dolomites 240 pages language german edition 2019 Idea Montagna Editoria e Alpinismo

Over 900 via ferratas between the Vienna Woods and Côte d'Azur 496 pages with 234 color illustrations language german edition 2023 Paul Werner / Iris Kürschner / Thomas Huttenlocher / Jochen Hemmleb Rother Selection

Via ferrata in the Dolomites, in South Tyrol, at the Lake Garda und in the Brenta and the Vizentiner Alps 540 pages language german, english edition 2022 Axel Jentzsch-Rabl, Andreas Jentzsch, Dieter Wissekal Alpinverlag Jentzsch-Rabl

80 selected via ferrata between Sexten and Riva 248 pages language german edition 2023 Mark Zahel Bergverlag Rother

Today, via ferratas represent a recreational activity accessible to many athletes and, with this book, the author, an expert Alpine Guide, accurately presents and describes all the Lombard itineraries, describing not only the necessary logistical information but also the state of equipment and maintenance. The guide also contains valuable advice on correct safety and progression techniques, expressed in a clear and simple way, to allow even the least experienced user to perform them correctly.The via ferrata guide describes 40 tours in the mountains around Varese, Lecco, Como, Sondrio, Bergamo and Brescia + Traversata alta delle Grigne and Sentiero Roma.The guide is very clearly laid out and describes the individual tours in precise detail. In addition to precise descriptions of the starting point and the approach, all via ferratas are described in detail. In addition, further information is provided, for example equipment, possible dangers, ways of avoiding individual difficult passages or combining several via ferratas in one tour. All other necessary information (orientation, altitude and altitude difference, physical demands, quality of equipment, ascent and route duration) is shown in pictogram form.223 pageslanguage germanedition 2024Andrea “Bedoii” CarìVersante Sud

Puez Geisler, Sella Langkofel, Rosengarten-Latemar, Pala, Civetta, Schiara 144 pages language german edition 2015 Thomas Zelger, Christjan Ladurner Tappeiner AG

Kamnik-Savinja Alps, Karavanke, Carnic Alps main ridge 83 selected climbing routes in Friuli, in Slovenia and Carinthia 231 pages language german 5th edition 2018 Alois Goller Bergverlag Rother

17 secured tours and via ferratas in the Pale di San Martino 223 pages language italian, english, german edition 2015 Andrea Greci Idea Montagna Editoria

The Tre Cime di Lavaredo, the Lago di Braies, the north-western walls of the Geisler - the northern Dolomites are home to perhaps the best-known landmarks of the entire Dolomite chain, true icons of these extraordinary mountains.In addition to more crowded routes, both experienced mountain hikers and beginners who want to experience the thrill of a via ferrata for the first time can choose from routes of all levels of difficulty that run through very different landscapes and stretch from the gates of Bressanone to Auronzo. These via ferratas and equipped trails are not only an approach to the walls, towers and ledges of peaks of grandiose expressiveness, but often also a journey through history, often along old military paths and footpaths from the First World War. Those seeking extreme difficulties and particularly sporty via ferratas will find only a limited selection of routes in this guide, which take place in lonely high-mountain environments. Some of the via ferrata routes described offer the possibility of linking several routes together and thus being able to spend hours or days in this enchanted mountain scenery between rock and sky.288 pagesLanguage Italian, English, GermanEdition 2017Andrea GreciIdea Montagna Editoria

The most beautiful via ferratas between Lake Como, Lake Geneva and the Mediterranean 192 pages language german edition 2010 Iris Kürschner Bergverlag Rother