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Dolomites

The Dolomites are pale towers, walls and pinnacles of limestone and dolomite rock standing over some of the greenest pasture in the Alps, with a hut or a hay barn on almost every slope. Ladin, German and Italian are all spoken here, often in the same valley, so most places answer to two or three names.

This sequence keeps to high summer. It begins with the churches and farmhouses of Val di Funes and Val Gardena, climbs into the stony upland of the Puez-Odle, and looks at the Sella and Sassolungo from their passes. From there it runs east through Val Badia to the cloud-wrapped peaks around Cortina, the lakes of Sorapis and Coldai and the Tre Cime, before a last look west at the Brenta group in the evening light.

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St John's chapel at St Magdalena in Val di Funes, the Odle beyond St Jakob's church above Ortisei, Sassolungo under grey cloud The painted Pertan farmhouse at Sacun, above Ortisei Firewood stacked along a meadow edge above Ortisei A stone pine on porphyry rocks at Resciesa, the Odle on the skyline The Mastlé pastures under the Odle and Stevia A tarn on the Mastlé meadows, Sassolungo and the Sella beyond The Cansles peaks above a broad fan of pale scree A walker on the scree above the Mont dal Ega valley The Ncisles pasture and the stony bed of the Mont dal Ega valley Sas dla Porta rising over green pasture in the Odle group A limestone pinnacle at the Cir pass The Col Turond bastion above the Vallunga Walkers on the path beneath the Stevia cliffs Haybarns on the Plans de Frea, Sassolungo at the head of the valley The Sella group's north walls above the Gardena Pass road Val Setus cutting into the Sella group above the Gardena Pass A path across the Pordoi Pass, Sassolungo on the far skyline The lights of Canazei before sunrise, Sassolungo above Val di Fassa Cows grazing on the Alpe di Siusi below Sassolungo The Platzer Alm hut above Barbiano, peaks hazy in the distance Rifugio Alpe di Tires below the jagged Denti di Terrarossa The Mezdi peaks above Colfosco in Val Badia Old farmhouses in the hay meadows at Colfosco The parish church of Colfosco against the Sella Sassongher above the forests of Val Badia An old timber barn on a stone base at Valgiarei, Val Badia Ra Gusela wrapped in cloud above the Giau Pass Storm cloud building over the trail down to the Giau Pass A signpost on the stony shoulder of Monte Nuvolau Tofana di Rozes catching cloud, seen from the Averau The milky turquoise of Lago di Sorapis below the Sorapis massif The shingle shore of Lago Coldai, near Alleghe The Tre Cime di Lavaredo above the Rienza valley, from Monte Specie Lago di Lavaredo in its bowl of pale scree Horses grazing on high pasture in the Tre Cime nature park Two goats at the Ritorto hut, the Brenta group beyond Late sun on the Brenta group, seen from high in Val Nambrone

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