Wall climbing
Nowadays the vie ferrate are an accessible ludic activity for everyone, it lies in following a sport itinerary traced on a rocky face, equipped with cables, marches and other elements that help to climb in a guaranteed security. The idea to make more easy the access to a col, a top or a refuge is very old, even if we cannot talk about a real ferrata in the far 1492 Antoine de Ville a french army captain wrote to have used a rung ladder to climb the Mount Aguille. In Piedmont the Ferrate phenomenon is quite recent, but shortly the competence of the Alpine Guides has conceived a choice of very beautiful routes, one of them is the Via Ferrata Carlo Giorda in Susa Valley with a difference in level of eight hundred meters and it permits to reach the abbey of the Sacra of San Michele. The monument built on the top of the Pirchiriano mountain around the year one thousand it is the symbol of the Region of Piedmont.
