Via ferrata is Italian for “iron road.” It describes climbing routes with safety wires, metal rungs, ladders, footholds, iron pins, or other permanently attached features across steep, rocky terrain.

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You don’t need rock climbing experience to find yourself clinging to granite cliffs 1,200 feet above the village at Palisades Tahoe. The Tahoe Via Ferrata is an assisted climbing adventure that ...

It is a foreign concept to most climbers in America. But in Europe, a mountaineering discipline called via ferrata -- Italian for "iron way" -- is an immensely popular way to get off the ground.

For the past three summers, North America’s highest-elevation via ferrata has made for an exhilarating addition to Arapahoe Basin’s summer recreation activities. Now resort officials are in the ...

Upstate New York is getting a new outdoor adventure this year with the opening of the first Via Ferrata in the Shawangunk Mountains. Via Ferratas combine the exposure of rock climbing and hiking with ...

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If you’ve ever wanted to scale the stunning cliffs of Upstate New York’s rocky ridges, a new adventure has opened this year that offers visitors a chance to experience the thrill—even if they’ve never ...

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The HOOK IT TWIST is CLIMBING TECHNOLOGY’s via ferrata set with an integrated connector swivel equipped with a progressive tearing textile energy absorber. Compact and lightweight, it can be used by ...

A 20-year-old British man has died after falling from Spain’s infamous Monkey Bridge via ferrata route near Malaga. He was attempting to climb the treacherous route ‘via ferrata’, using metal cables, ...