Height of adventure: Via ferrata in the Bernese Oberland

By Elspeth Callender
Updated January 24 2018 - 10:38am, first published 10:34am

When Italy fought the Austro-Hungarian Empire for their precious Dolomites during World War I, soldiers secured cables and ladders to the treacherous limestone faces of their vertical battlefields for safer traverse. A century later, in Switzerland's Bernese Oberland, a recreational via ferrata neutralises my own longstanding battle with heights.

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