Once reserved for mountain towns, iron-rung climbing courses called via ferratas are showing up in places like Columbus, Ohio. Here’s where else to try one.

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 ...

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After WWII, the Italian Alpine Club restored many of these routes for alpinists. Now, there are via ferrata routes all over the Alps and the U.S. After Telluride installed theirs in 2007, they've ...

Via ferrata is a gateway drug for rock climbing – once you’ve experienced the highs, you’re going to get hooked. T3. ... to find the large alpine hut now looks about the size of a matchbox.

The panoramic Jegihorn offers a beautiful Alpine via ferrata combined with breathtaking views of the 4,545m-high summit of Dom. Photograph by Francesco Vaninetti, Getty Images. 3.

The high-alpine Cloud Ladder has a different type of superlative: With some 600 feet of sustained upward climbing for most of its length, it’s billed as the steepest via ferrata in the United ...

As I wobble along the via ferrata’s cable-wire bridge stretched across the Uncompahgre Gorge in Ouray, I keep reminding myself of one thing: Don’t look down.Don’t look down. Do. Not. Look. Down.

Eagle Cliff Via Ferrata opened at Mohonk Mountain House in Upstate NY this year. The experience combines the exposure of rock climbing and hiking with footholds and a cable system you hook into.

Mohonk’s via ferrata requires a guide and an overnight stay at the hotel. The tour costs $250 per person and reservations for the spring will open soon, according to a Mohonk spokesperson.