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The Antonio Locatelli hut (German: Dreizinnenhütte) is a mountain refuge located in the Tre Cime Natural Park in Alto Adige-South Tyrol, Italy. It sits at an altitude of 2,450 meters (8,038 feet). It sits at an altitude of 2,450 meters (8,038 feet).
Tre Cime Natural Park is named after the famous peaks. The visitor centre provides information concerning the trails, natural and man-made landscapes of the Sexten Dolomites and it is located at the former Grand Hotel in Dobbiaco. Numerous well-marked routes lead from the surrounding communities to and around the peaks.
The original idea for this trail originated in 1983 within a group of ambitious hikers. With the help of the Italian Alpine Club, the trail became a reality in 1995 in the first ever CamminaItalia ("Walk Italy"), an event in which a group of trekkers departed from a Sardinian coastal village and covered the entire trail in eight months.
The Dolomites are renowned for skiing in the winter months and mountain climbing, hiking, cycling and BASE jumping, as well as paragliding and hang gliding in summer and late spring/early autumn. [ 9 ] [ 10 ] Free climbing has been a tradition in the Dolomites since 1887, when 17-year-old Georg Winkler soloed the first ascent of the pinnacle of ...
The Sexten Dolomites (Italian: Dolomiti di Sesto; German: Sextener Dolomiten) is a mountain range and a nature reserve in South Tyrol, Italy. The nature park was renamed in 2010 to Naturpark Drei Zinnen – Parco Naturale Tre Cime. [1]
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After Emilio Comici had been the first to climb the north face of the Cima Grande of the Tre Cime di Lavaredo in 1933, in February 1938 Kasparek and Sepp Brunnhuber made the first winter ascent. On 24 July 1938, with Anderl Heckmair , Ludwig Vörg and Heinrich Harrer , he made the first ascent of the north face of the Eiger .