How Do You Feel About This?

CLICK ON THE IMAGE TO ENLARGE IT ... I have been on via ferrata in the Alps. They are fun, they are cool, they make the mountains more accessible, but do they jive with our wilderness ethic? Is this the thin edge of the wedge? Will we eventually see cables on climbing routes, as we do in the Alps? I never much liked the fact that there are fixed lines on the Hornli ridge of the Matterhorn, or on the South Face of the Geant for that matter.

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