FERRATA: (Geographical entry.).

A via ferrata (Italian for iron road. The plural form is "vie ferrate". In German, a via ferrata is known as a "klettersteig" or "climbing step".) is a mountain route which is equipped with fixed cables, stemples, ladders, and bridges. The use of these allows otherwise isolated routes to be joined to create longer routes which are accessible to people with a wide range of climbing abilities. They are found in a number of European countries, including Italy, Germany, France, Austria, Slovenia, Switzerland, Spain, United States, Canada. The first via ferratas were built in the Dolomite mountain region of Italy during the First World War, to aid the movement of mountain infantry. The Dolomites probably still have the greatest number of via ferrata. There are various difficoulties for a via ferrata, easy, medium, difficult, very difficult, extremly difficult, and particularly difficoult. There are also ferrate in Trieste, the Bruno Biondi, the Naso, Diedro, Erbosa, Tetto, and the Austriaco and many others. When you do a ferrata you feel happy and it seems as of you were in the sjy, its beautiful!!