Photo by @shonephoto (Robbie Shone) // words by adventure writer and presenter @CharlieBoscoe - The wartime ruins which line many of the Dolomites via ferratas are incredibly well hidden and with good reason; they were designed to be difficult to find and (ideally) impossible to conquer. The effort it must have taken to transport building materials to these high and remote ridges is hard to imagine, but the hard work would still have been preferable to the idea of being vulnerable to enemy attack.