When Italy fought the Austro-Hungarian Empire for their precious Dolomites during World War I, soldiers secured cables and ladders to the treacherous limestone faces of their vertical battlefields for ...

Combining hiking and climbing with spectacular landscapes, via ferrata is sure to get the heart thumping. Are you brave enough to try it? With blue skies seemingly in reaching distance above your head ...

I gulped and looked down. A few yards below me, 15-year-old Marco was feeling for his next handhold. A Five hundred vertical feet below - roughly three times the height of Nelson’s Column - was the ...

The first via ferrata in Canton Ticino has been built on Monte Salvatore high above Lake Lugano. The ferrata ascends the NW Face for 250m to the left of the cable car and was created by the Mountain ...

An adventurer captured a heart-stopping moment while navigating a "via Ferrata" in Engelberg, Switzerland. Walking on steel rebars fixed to the side of a mountain, he filmed himself 700 meters above a ...

Think that you can't climb towers like these? Think again. Clip into our top ten via ferratas and reach heights that normal walks just can't reach. From French footholds to Cortina’s cables; from ...