| Piz Boè from the South-West | [ Sizes: Orig | Large | Med | Small | Thumb ] |
View up through Val Lasties (from the south-west) towards Piz Boè with its summit hut. This is not only the highest peak of the Sella group, but is also considered the easiest 3000'er of the Dolomites (you only have to use your hands a couple of times on the normal route).
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[ Post a Comment ]| lcarreau | What does Piz Boe | | 
Voted 10/10 | mean in English, Ejnar?
I always get "Piz Boe" confused with Edgar
Allen Poe.
One is a mountain; the other a man.
(Outstanding photograph, Ejnar!)
| | Posted Aug 17, 2009 11:58 pm |
 | | Ejnar Fjerdingstad | Re: What does Piz Boe | | 
Hasn't voted | Actually, I don't know! The name probably is Ladin, a Rhaeto-Roman language, which is a mixture of Celtic and Latin and the native language of many people in the Dolomites (formerly a very isolated area with no roads in which this ancient language could survive). Many of the Dolomite peaks were named in Ladin (others in German or Italian or both!). Unless there is a Ladin-speaker here on SP, you will probably have to go there to find out!
Poe is one of my favourite American writers, by the way - "The Cask of Amontillado" for instance! | | Posted Aug 18, 2009 6:20 am |
| slowbutsteady | the normal (easy) route? | | 
Voted 10/10 | I presume that the easy way up is not on the side pictured in the image? Great photo. | | Posted Sep 18, 2009 6:24 pm |
| | Ejnar Fjerdingstad | Re: the normal (easy) route? | |
Hasn't voted | Thank you, you are right it isn't, although you can see a small bit of it just up to the hut from the right. | | Posted Sep 19, 2009 4:44 pm |
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