Dolomite Mountains, an adventure travel company based in the Dolomite Mountains, is offering the experience of mountain climbing on a Via Ferrata. The Via Ferrata (or iron road) is a mountain route ...

Francesco Favilli and Filippo Zanin, two expert Italian mountaineers, died while climbing the south face of the Marmolada, Dolomites. Shocking, devastating news once again. Two expert Italian ...

CONSIDER THIS THE last time you’ve never heard of Cortina D’Ampezzo. You might’ve already heard about this town at the foot of Italy’s Dolomite Mountains from early promos for the Winter Olympics, ...

Planetmountain.com is a site about climbing, mountaineering, trekking, via ferrata, freeriding, ski mountaineering, snowboarding, snowshoeing, and ice climbing on all the mountains of the world. It ...

Gietl opened the new line last weekend at the Pisciadu wall in the Sella Dolomites. The route includes sections up to M8 and requires considerable mental strength. Cima Pisciadu and its walls lie in ...

Climbing season continues in the Alps, attracting climbers from around the world to take on these challenging peaks. The Eiger, Mont Blanc, the Matterhorn, and Gran Paradiso present historic climbing ...

Ermanno Salvaterra, the famed "Man of Cerro Torre," died in a fall on August 18 while guiding the Hartman-Krauss (IV+/5.5; 600m) on Campanile Alto, in the Dolomites. Salvaterra had climbed the classic ...

The Dolomites, a vast mountain region in the Italian Alps, are filled with emerald green valleys, world-class skiing and charming alpine villages that will take your breath away. It’s the ultimate ...

particularly unnerving, in large part because of what climbing media focused on before and after these fatalities. The first of these was the death of 25 year-old Jonas Hainz, of South Tyrol (in ...