Via ferrata

Can be a little treacherous at times, but, but was exhilarating.

But then, uh, we spent some time, you know, in the Alps doing a little bit of Via Ferrata with the same people.

Oh, wow.

You know, Chris.

Yeah, yeah, absolutely.

And with things like the Via Ferrata aspects, I mean, they're just open all the time, aren't they? So there wasn't a, it's not an issue there, is there?

Yeah, well, there is there is no issue about going to it.

The issue only lies about how you get there and how many kilometers you've got to do.

You know, some of my funny moments were that some of these via ferratas were at the base of the Alpine.

start trails right or the start rock climbs that take you up onto the glaciers and stuff and everyone who kind of gets to those parts they're all fully geared up right they've got their alpine boots harnesses helmets like protective gloves everything and a lot of the time I was traveling very light so I would just be in my trail outfit and my running vest and we would we would often meet like on these sort of start finish points and they would be looking at me like Are you lost? Like, what are you doing?

Did you not have a harness?

Well, I mean, yeah.

And I was just having this conversation with my sister earlier talking about my brother-in-law is like definitely afraid of heights.

And I was like, oh, we should take the kids to the Via Ferrata down in Urey because it's really cool down there.

She's like, yeah, he's going to not enjoy that.

But we know, everybody knows somebody who's scared of heights.

You know, if you could just imagine it and get more comfortable imagining it.

And, you know, again, using a lot of different tools and tactics to go through that exposure.

as you're progressively moving through that, those challenges to get off the ground on that via Ferrata, which sounds like a lot of fun.

Yeah, I think so too.

You get a little bit of that hard hitting ascent, but nothing too bad.

So for anybody that's ever afraid to do like Via Ferrata, you don't have to worry about that with this one.

Yeah.

Yeah, and that is also why the colleagues suggested to do the short Alta Fiat 2.

That was scheduled for today.

To do what instead? to meet with Soraya Martinez-Ferrata to discuss homelessness, based

on this, as you said.

Yeah, exactly.

The highest peak here is called Bobovtov Kok and sits at just over 2,500 meters, while the whole mountain range is a crisscross of trails ranging from gentle lakeside strolls to serious all-day endurance tests, scrambling over rocks and climbing up steep ravines.

There are even a couple of Via Ferrata routes here, where you can connect into the fixed cables and scale some very sketchy cliff edges.

Now how hard you push today is entirely up to you, so take into account your level of fitness and the weather, because these are proper mountains.

The dangers are real and it can all change very quickly.