Via ferrata in Italy is so much better. First off, I don’t even think it’s safe to have more than one person on a segment at a time - when you fall, you slide down to the previous anchor into the wall. You also get fucked up, worse than regular mountain climbing, because the fall factor can go way over 2 and you can hit whatever metal stuff is on the wall.
Tourists going along those narrow plank things stuck into the cliff face. “via ferrata – metal rungs secured to the mountain”
Via ferrata in Italy is so much better. First off, I don’t even think it’s safe to have more than one person on a segment at a time - when you fall, you slide down to the previous anchor into the wall. You also get fucked up, worse than regular mountain climbing, because the fall factor can go way over 2 and you can hit whatever metal stuff is on the wall.
So how many tons do these things hold?