Via Ferrata

Connected Sites: 12

WHS containing a Via Ferrata. "A via ferrata (Italian for "iron road") is a mountain route which is equipped with fixed cables, stemples, ladders and bridges. The use of these allows otherwise isolated routes to be joined to create longer routes which are accessible to people with a wide range of climbing abilities" (Wiki)

Connected Sites

Madriu-Perafita-Claror Valley

Andorra

Inscribed: 2004

2.66

148

9

To Rocs d'Esquers
See visitandorra.com
Pyrénées - Mont Perdu

France, Spain

Inscribed: 1997

3.57

120

7

Via Ferrata de Coumély
See www.montagne-cool.com
Lake District

United Kingdom

Inscribed: 2017

3.51

221

7

At Honister Slate Mine
See en.wikipedia.org
Yosemite National Park

United States of America

Inscribed: 1984

4.28

287

12

Half Dome
Three parallel rivers of Yunnan

China

Inscribed: 2003

3.41

60

6

At Laojunshan
Swiss Tectonic Arena Sardona

Switzerland

Inscribed: 2008

2.96

117

7

a historic Via Ferrata called Pinut at Fil de Cassons
See en.wikipedia.org
Kinabalu Park

Malaysia

Inscribed: 2000

3.25

93

6

The World's highest at 3776 meters
Hallstatt-Dachstein

Austria

Inscribed: 1997

3.61

243

16

Dachstein
See www.derdachstein.at
Dolomites

Italy

Inscribed: 2009

4.08

251

7

The Dolomites as a whole contain around 80 VF. Within the inscribed site, the Via Ferrata Marmolada is the highest (the World's second highest at 3343 metres?), longest and oldest in the Dolomites. The first VF were installed in the Dolomites during WWI (Austria/Italy) "To help troops to move about at high altitude in very difficult conditions permanent lines were fixed to rock faces and ladders were installed so that troops could ascend steep faces". (Wiki)
See thealps.wordpress.com
Causses and Cévennes

France

Inscribed: 2011

3.20

124

5

At Montpellier-le-Vieux
Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks

Canada

Inscribed: 1984

4.41

180

9

Mount Norquay's Via Ferrata
See www.cbc.ca
Mount Kenya

Kenya

Inscribed: 1997

2.93

44

3

"In July 2012 a new via ferrata developed by the Kenyan Wildlife Services (KWS), opened on Mount Kenya" (Wiki)