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Via Ferratas of the Italian Dolomites: North, Central and East v. 1 (Cicerone Mountain Walking) by: John Smith, Graham Fletcher List Price: £12.95 City Travel Guides Price: £11.99 You Save: £0.96 ( 7%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 910 EAN: 9781852843625 ISBN: 1852843624 Label: Cicerone Press Manufacturer: Cicerone Press Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 256 Publication Date: April 01, 2004 Publisher: Cicerone Press Studio: Cicerone Press Sales Rank: 205820 Related Items:
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 Rating:  - Great bookI bought this book a few years ago for my first trip to the Dolomites; I could only find this and one other Dolomite Via Ferrata book in English. I found this book a Godsend; informative, well laid out with maps, photos, cross reference indexes, useful telephone number and local information. This made my first Via Ferrata experience so much easier to plan and navigate. I have since done a couple more trips and this book and Volume 2 have been my guides and are well thumbed. I would recommend this book to anyone planning a Via Ferrata trip to the Dolomites whether a novice or seasoned ferraterist. Rating:  - Not very goodThe new Ferrata guide is probably the worst guidebook and I have ever tried to use it is extremely hard to follow they have invented their own grading system and it is repetitive. You are better getting the old guide which although it is out of date is much better and easier to follow and the grade can be relied upon. They state that there are many grading systems in existence but they differ only in minor ways for example using numbers from one to six instead of letters so they are roughly comparable, they have invented a new system and assigned the roots in a seemingly arbitrary fashion I went up one route which my partner looked at would not go near, it were graded two in this book and the Germans told me that in their book it was a ... Read More: |
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