Secret Dolomites

Andrea Rizzato

ISBN 10: 2361956241 / ISBN 13: 9782361956240

Editore: Jonglez, FR, 2023

Let Secret Dolomites guide you around the unusual and unfamiliar. Step off the beaten track with this fascinating Dolomites travel guide book and let our local experts show you the well-hidden treasures of an amazing region. Ideal for local inhabitants, curious visitors and armchair travellers alike. The places included in our guides are unusual and unfamiliar, allowing one to step off the beaten track. Secret Dolomites features 120 secret and unusual locations.From ephemeral lakes in high mountain meadows, to rocky labyrinths hidden behind rock walls, ancient mining villages and abandoned hamlets, the prison of the Turks in the Dolomites, a proglacial lake, a rock that defies the laws of gravity, petrified bishops, dwarfs, gnomes and an elephant, caves, ravines and mysterious portals, breathtaking views of the highest rock walls of the Dolomites, a forgotten and enchanting forest, lost bivouacs on secluded high plateaus, solitary hermitages, stone books in an open-air library, the trails of Mesolithic hunters, a glacier set between blood-red rock walls and another with a bewitching turquoise gaze, vias ferratas to travel along in solitude, unknown summits that don't have names on topographic maps, a path inhabited by the spirits of the air.Secret Dolomites is a guidebook designed for travellers who wish to stray from the busy and regularly overcrowded paths and set off to discover the countless unknown and often spectacular sites that these mountains can offer. Codice articolo LU-9782361956240

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Secret Dolomites, 9782361956240

Informazioni sull'autore:

With 30 years of experience in the Alpine region, Andrea Rizzato is the author of numerous hiking and ski-mountaineering guides, and also contributes to the main magazines specialising in outdoor activities. Having mostly travelled and photographed the less known and less used routes, he prefers the wilder parts of the mountains that offer a sense of communion with nature. He is also an academic member of GISM, the Italian Association of Mountain Writers. The author is himself a guide on the routes described in this book and is available for any suggestions or explanations at andrearizzato2018@gmail.com.

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Titolo: Secret Dolomites
Casa editrice: Jonglez, FR
Data di pubblicazione: 2023
Legatura: Paperback
Condizione: New