The Nordwand: 1,800 metres of limestone and ice that made alpinism famous and killed dozens proving it.
The first eight-thousander ever climbed, in 1950 — and still the deadliest of the fourteen.
Walk the crater rim of the volcano that buried Pompeii, with the Bay of Naples below.
Basalt peak above the lagoon where runaway slaves hid, now a UNESCO site with a steep, rewarding summit trail.
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