On 2 October 2015 at Longarone (Italy) the new Via ferrata della Memoria, also referred to as Via ferrata del Vajont, was inaugurated above the Vajont Gorge. Constructed by the Cortina Mountain Guides ...

The dam is called Vajont. And it, too, is a memorial of sorts. When built, it was the tallest dam of its kind in the world, harnessing the waters of a small mountain torrent to create a lake meant to ...

The Long Distance Duathlon World Championship due on 29th May in Barcis (Pordenone), in Friuli Venezia Giulia, is involving the whole Vacellina, one of the best known and most appreciated naturalistic ...

In October 1963, a massive landslide collapsed into the Vajont reservoir in northern Italy, displacing water with ...

OCTOBER 9, 1963: Colossal floods killed 2,000 people and destroyed five villages in the Italian Alps 50 years ago today, after a landslide overwhelmed the Vajont Dam and caused a tsunami. Following ...

The Zenith is a mountaineering axe that uniquely combines lightweight design with technical features for top-level performance. Planetmountain.com is a site about climbing, mountaineering, trekking, ...

“Toc” is a contraction of “patoc” which, in the local Friulian language of those in Italy’s northwest, translates as soggy. Monte Toc walks and talks. And from 1960 onwards, its constant chatter ...

The valley of Vajont(also Vaiont) is characterized in the upper part by a large catchment area, smoothed by ancient glacal activity, and a narrow gorge eroded by the river Vajont in the lower part.

On October 9th, 1963, at 10:39 pm, 260 million cubic meters of rock fell down from Mount Toc into the artificial lake formed by the Vajont dam, one of the the higher dams in the world. The landslide ...

In 1963, thousands in northern Italy lost their lives as villages were washed away by huge flooding caused by the Vajont dam. Risk expert David N Petley has studied the disaster, and considers what it ...