Telluride's via ferrata is one of the most famous and oldest in the U.S. The route is technically called the Kroger Via ...

Meanwhile, the most challenging – the Summiteer route – is 2 miles long and crosses a three-wire suspension bridge and ladders to reach the highest point on the Via Ferrata in about six hours.

Via ferrata means 'iron path' in English and sees participants move along climbing routes while secured to metal wires and loops fixed to rock faces. To reach the ladder, which rests at a 45 ...

This story appears in the July 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. When a system of cables, steps, and ladders was built in the Dolomites to help World War I troops traverse the mountains ...

My friends and I hiked through a lush, sweeping forest before locating the start of the Brigata Tridentina via ferrata route, which included clambering up ladder rungs and wonderful rocky, limestone ...

So, don’t hang around – it’s time to do some ironing. Look forward to overhanging descents, a Burma Bridge, and a daring sky ladder. Credit: Via Ferrata Xtreme Honister Learn the iron ways in the Lake ...

Enrico Maioni, Cortina Mountain Guide, introduces the spectacular Tofana di Rozes circuit combined with the legendary, short but exposed Minighel ladder, famous for being the first via ferrata at ...

We’re paused in the middle of this bridge, the highest point on the via ferrata in Quebec’s Parc national du Fjord-du-Saguenay, 130 metres over the treetops of Eternity Bay. “You must ...