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An article on rock slides and every photo is stunningly gorgeous. That's the Dolomites. Fun tidbit: The formation mentioned, the Five Towers, is right across

An article on rock slides and every photo is stunningly gorgeous. That's the Dolomites. Fun tidbit: The formation mentioned, the Five Towers, is right across the valley from where most of the movie "Cliffhanger" was filmed (the Tofane Group around Cortina d'Ampezzo).

jfengel 1y ago
I went to Bolzano to see the Iceman. I was not expecting the Dolomites. They look like a movie set. In fact, they look like a movie set that you'd go, "Man, mountains don't look like that." I'm glad they got good pictures for this article. The Dolomites are often clouded in.
n4r9 1y ago
The article and specifically your post brings back vivid memories! My wife and I hiked the Dolomites starting from Cortina d'Ampezzo a few years back. Our second day was from Rifugio Tofana, round the southern ridge of Tofana di Rozes towards Rifugio Lagazuoi. Despite following what looked like a major route on the map, the trail was scraggly and at one point totally petered out for a couple of meters. I reckoned this was due to rockfall at the end of winter, which the article validates. It was just about okay for a person to scramble across unencumbered, but we had 15-20kg rucksacks and the drop looked fatal. We had to make a call between taking a big detour (probably several hours longer) or finding a way across. Eventually we got across but it was hair-raising and risky. We warned the staff at Lagazuoi about the broken trail, but they were totally unbothered. We were hoping that some kind of warning could be broadcast to local authorities, but either they misunderstood what we were saying or they just didn't care! Then a few weeks after getting back to the UK I read that some British climbers had died on a "via ferrata" in a different area of the Dolomites. I had a mixture of gratefulness that I'd gotten back alive plus sadness at the lack of safeguarding.

jfengel 1y ago

I went to Bolzano to see the Iceman. I was not expecting the Dolomites. They look like a movie set. In fact, they look like a movie set that you'd go, "Man, mountains don't look like that." I'm glad they got good pictures for this article. The Dolomites are often clouded in.

n4r9 1y ago

The article and specifically your post brings back vivid memories! My wife and I hiked the Dolomites starting from Cortina d'Ampezzo a few years back. Our second day was from Rifugio Tofana, round the southern ridge of Tofana di Rozes towards Rifugio Lagazuoi. Despite following what looked like a major route on the map, the trail was scraggly and at one point totally petered out for a couple of meters. I reckoned this was due to rockfall at the end of winter, which the article validates. It was just about okay for a person to scramble across unencumbered, but we had 15-20kg rucksacks and the drop looked fatal. We had to make a call between taking a big detour (probably several hours longer) or finding a way across. Eventually we got across but it was hair-raising and risky. We warned the staff at Lagazuoi about the broken trail, but they were totally unbothered. We were hoping that some kind of warning could be broadcast to local authorities, but either they misunderstood what we were saying or they just didn't care! Then a few weeks after getting back to the UK I read that some British climbers had died on a "via ferrata" in a different area of the Dolomites. I had a mixture of gratefulness that I'd gotten back alive plus sadness at the lack of safeguarding.