Dolomites - Dedicated Trails

The Dolomites are marked by thousands and thousands of kilometers of paths, mule tracks and equipped routes of varying difficulty and length. Many of them, in addition to the extraordinary charm of the places they pass through, have an added value: a name and a history.
There are paths dedicated to pioneers or great mountaineers, and others dedicated to prominent figures in fields unrelated to the mountains, but who loved the mountains. Some dedications concern cultural personalities who have mountain roots or even artists who have left traces of their passage. There are numerous "Alpini" or "Kaiserjäger" paths, created by Italian and Austrian soldiers in very harsh environmental conditions on the front line in the run-up to and during the Great War. There are also widespread paths that recall the mountain activities of the past: from the miners to the mountaineers who collected and marketed snow and ice. Also fascinating are those that take you back to distant eras and there are also paths and places that refer to Dolomite fairy tales saved from oblivion.
This book describes 45 itineraries, considered by the authors to be among the most interesting from a hiking point of view and the most significant for the value of the "dedication" or history.
Mostly these are paths accessible to all but there is no shortage of equipped paths and via ferratas and a couple of routes that require mountaineering hiking experience.

Info on the Authors
Paolo Bonetti, was born in Bologna to a father from Ferrara and a mother from the Dolomite valley of Zoldo. Since the 1960s he has dedicated himself to rock climbing in the Dolomites as well as on the sandstones of the Apennines and on the limestones of the Apuan Alps, remaining in activity until the 1980s.
At the end of the 70s he began working in mountain journalism by translating Big Wall Climbing by Doug Scott (Le Grandi Pareti, il Castello editore) after which he collaborated with numerous publishers and publications: Tamari, Zanichelli, Vivalda, Panorama, Cierre, Tappeiner, Versante Sud. Alpine Club di Londra, Rother, Alp, Rivista Mensile del Cai, Alpi Venete, Alpin, Bergsteiger.
Since the 1980s he has intensified his activity in journalism, dedicating himself to pioneer mountaineering and "off-trail" research hiking. Among his latest publications, as co-author, the hiking guide Valsugana and Canale del Brenta (Versante Sud 2010).

Paolo Lazzarin, journalist and photographer, lives and works in Milan as a freelancer.
He has collaborated with the main Italian and some foreign newspapers and contributed to the writing of entries for encyclopedias.
He is the author or co-author of over 40 volumes published by Rizzoli, Fabbri, Zanichelli, Tamari, Cierre, Panorama, Scripta, Tappeiner, Vivalda, some of which have also been translated in Spain, France, Germany, Slovenia, the Czech Republic and the United States.
On the Dolomites he has published about fifteen volumes, photographs and hiking, tourist and food and wine guides.