Italy - Via Ferrata week - Piz da Lech, 20th July, 2008

For the week, 19th - 26th July, myself, Lorna and Ben went to Arabba in the Italian Dolomites for a week's VF ing! We stayed in Chalet Brigitta as we did ;ast year (2007), courtesy of Colletts Mountain Holidays. Our first route of the week was the 3B, Piz da Lech. A short drive to Corvara, then the cable car and chair lift to the top station, leaves you a twenty minute walk to the start of the VF.

The red line shows the route of the VF.

Ben gearing up in the "cave" just below the start of Piz da Lech.

Looking up at the main wall with the two ladder sections higher up on the right.

Me and Ben on one of the ladders.

When you finish using the cable, it's another twenty minute or so plod to the summit, with huge drops on your left and great views of some of the Sella Massif's towers.

Me and Ben, not looking very macho at the summit cross on Piz da Lech at 2520m! After leaving our comments in the log book, we headed back down via the chair and cable car to Corvara.