Rock
VIA FERRATA
Offering non-technical climbers the chance to experience how it feels to cling to the side of a vertiginous rock face, via ferrata are alpine routes formed by permanently placed metal rungs set into the side of mountains. Historically, such ‘iron roads’ were used by combatants in WWI, during a terrible sky-high battle for control of the Dolomite Mountains between Italy and Austria, but now thousands of the routes are explored by recreational climbers on the continent, and the UK has several via ferratas too.