Put on your crampons, we are going to the Alps and the Dolomites

Put on your crampons we are going to the Alps

How beautiful the mountain is ! sang the poet. Put on your crampons, it will be a question here of backpack backvia ferrata and hiking between italy and France. I’mountaineer and photographer Pierre Thiaville takes us familiar with the snowy peaks and the green pastures of the Alps and the Dolomites that he knows on the end of the ice axe.

The Dolomiteslocated north ofItaly, constitute one of the most beautiful landscapes in the world classified as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. With its 18 peaks over 3,000 meters above sea level, this massif of the Pre-Alps covers an area of ​​141,900 hectares. Characterized by steep slopes and vertical walls, sharp peaks surrounded by soft and verdant lawns, the site presents a diversity of spectacularly beautiful and grandiose landscapes. On the other side, let’s go back to the Alps French and take to the heights, between mountain pastures, steep minerality and high-altitude lakes, frolicking in the grasslandwatch for marmots, without losing sight of what ibex watching us from afar.

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