On the rocks
Oct 01, 2019
2 minutes
BY ANDREW WEAVER
f you’re a Coloradan of the ziplining, bungee jumping, adrenaline-seeking sort, you’ve probably already heard of via ferrata, a “new” way of climbing mountains that’s actually a very old way of climbing mountains, recently back in fashion. Italian for “iron way,” via ferrata routes date to WWI Europe, when soldiers used them to navigate tricky passages of the Alps. The concept, similar to modern
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