via ferrata

plural via ferratas · plural vie ferrate

1. climbingA protected climbing route, usually with iron cables and hooks.

   Vie ferrate are frequently demanding undertakings requiring experience in many aspects of mountaineering.

   2001, Hoffler Werner, translated by Cecil Davies, Via Ferrata: Scrambles in the Dolomites, Cicerone Press, →ISBN, page 11

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   In the three places in this book where the vie ferrate are of a slightly more advanced level, alternative trails have been suggested.

   2001, Henry Stedman, Trekking in the Dolomites, Trailblazer, →ISBN, page 9

   The loss of welfare for vie ferrate in Pale di S. Martino was twice as large as that in Tofane, indicating the vie ferrate are probably more appealing.

   2008, Tourism Economics: The Business and Finance of Tourism and Recreation, page 279

   Like its counterparts in the Dolomites, where the first vie ferrate were built to help move troops through the mountains during World War I, this one has a steel cable bolted into the rock, paralleling the Rings.

   2009 March, Michael Lanza, “Higher Calling”, in Backpacker, page 83

   Hidden away among steep crags and dense forests, Chisà is the starting point for several interesting hikes, and also for possibly the most thrilling via ferrata in Corsica.

   2010, Jean-Bernard Carillet, Miles Roddis, Neil Wilson, Corsica, Lonely Planet, →ISBN, page 166

   However, the dramatic beauty and tricky rock faces attracted the attention of local and foreign climbers, and during the 1930s the construction of a via ferrata to the base of difficult climbs began.

   2010, Brendan Sainsbury, Hiking in Italy, Lonely Planet, →ISBN, page 48