Brenta Dolomites

Via Ferrata Grand Tour

6 nights from £2300 • €2640 • $3105

Activities

5 days guided via ferrata and hiking

Accommodation

2 nights in 3-star hotel & 4 nights in mountain huts

Level

Intermediate

Food

Traditional Italian mountain meals

Difficulty

Group Size

Challenging

Transfers

5 new friends

Dates

Fly into Verona, Italy

July

  • Via Ferrata

    Tackle fixed metal cables, ladders, and winding mountain routes

  • The Dolomites

    Hike beneath jagged limestone spires, away from the crowds

  • Mountain Huts

    Spend evenings in traditional Italian mountain huts

  • Hut-to-Hut

    Hike and climb the via ferrata each day to reach your next stop for the night

  • Eat like a local

    Traditional italian mountain meals with ingredients from right on the doorstep

  • Spa wind down

    Soak tired muscles at Italy's biggest thermal park

Upgrade your exploration of the Brenta Dolomites with five days tackling one of the most complete, epic and view-fuelled via ferrata routes in Europe. You'll clip in, follow the mountain, and emerge five days later having crossed the whole thing.

Expect long days, real altitude, and terrain that demands your full attention. This isn't about ticking off a trail, it's about using iron pegs, ladders and narrow bridges to access one of the most famous suspended routes in the world, all done in a small group led by expert guides.

Nights are spent in traditional rifugios as you move from hut to hut, where you’ll eat hearty food, share dorm rooms and swap stories with the other Gutsy Girls on your trip. 

Location

Tucked in to the west of the main Dolomite range, the Brenta Dolomites have fewer crowds, but the same dramatic peaks. Jagged limestone spires rip up from the valley floor, creating that iconic Dolomite skyline you've been scrolling past for years. It’s also home to one of the most complete and adrenaline pumping via ferrata systems in the world: the Bocchette Way.

You’ll start in an upmarket alpine town, before heading into these incredible mountains for five days of navigating metal wires, ladders and bridges. 

Via Ferrata

Meaning “iron way” in Italian, via ferratas are a protected system of fixed metal cables, ladders, pegs, and stirrups, anchored into the rock to help you progress through mountainside terrain that would otherwise need ropes and technical skills to master. Although first introduced by adventurers in the 1800s to tackle mountain paths, they rose in prominence during World War 1 as a way to move troops around the borders of Austria and Italy.

Somewhere between scrambling, hiking and climbing, you clip your harness directly onto a cable as you move to ensure you’re always attached to the mountain, then follow the route ahead, wherever it may take you. 

Via ferrata doesn't require any climbing experience, but you do need a genuine head for heights, good fitness, and the ability to use your arms as much as your legs for hours at a time. Also be prepared for adrenaline boosts, jaw-dropping views and the biggest sense of achievement ever.

The Bocchette Way

The legendary Via delle Bocchette is composed of several secured paths, using natural ridges and eroded alcoves to create a via ferrata system that’s on every adventurer's bucket list. Made up of a linked series of equipped routes, the path runs right across the Brenta mountains from north to south. The exposure is real and sustained, but the views are relentless. 

The Four Routes

Sosat Route - Your introduction to the trip. A well-established route that uses long metal ladders and pegs to climb the eastern side of the Brenta mountains. 

Brentari Route - A route that moves along the south face of Cima Tosa, running between ledges, rocky terrain and scree slopes at high altitude. 

Bocchette Centrali - The most famous stretch. High exposure, aerial passages, and the moment you walk beneath Campanil Basso, one of the most striking rock towers in the Alps. 

Bocchette Alte - The hardest section, with impressive vertical ladders, long exposed ledges, and the Scala degli Amici: a 30-metre ladder that takes you to Spallone dei Massodi, the highest point of the whole traverse.

Activities

  • Via Ferrata

    Meaning “iron way” in Italian, via ferratas are a protected system of fixed metal cables, ladders, pegs, and stirrups, anchored into the rock to help you progress through mountainside terrain that would otherwise need ropes and technical skills to master. Although first introduced by adventurers in the 1800s to tackle mountain paths, they rose in prominence during World War 1 as a way to move troops around the borders of Austria and Italy.

    Somewhere between scrambling, hiking and climbing, you clip your harness directly onto a cable as you move to ensure you’re always attached to the mountain, then follow the route ahead, wherever it may take you. 

    Via ferrata doesn't require any climbing experience, but you do need a genuine head for heights, good fitness, and the ability to use your arms as much as your legs for hours at a time. 

  • The Bocchette Way

    The legendary Via delle Bocchette is composed of several secured paths, using natural ridges and eroded alcoves to create a via ferrata system that’s on every adventurer's bucket list. Made up of a linked series of equipped routes, the route runs right across the Brenta mountains from north to south. The exposure is real and sustained, but the views are relentless. 

  • The Four Routes

    Sosat Route - Your introduction to the trip. A well-established route that uses long metal ladders and pegs to climb the eastern side of the Brenta. 

    Brentari Route - A route that moves along the south face of Cima Tosa, running between ledges, rocky terrain and scree slopes at high altitude. 

    Bocchette Centrali - The most famous stretch. High exposure, aerial passages, and the moment you walk beneath Campanil Basso, one of the most striking rock towers in the Alps. 

    Bocchette Alte - The hardest section, with impressive vertical ladders, long exposed ledges, and the Scala degli Amici: a 30-metre ladder that takes you to Spallone dei Massodi, the highest point of the whole traverse.

Fitness and Experience Level

  • This trip is rated challenging.

    Spending a week navigating a via ferrata is hard work. You'll be using your arms and upper body continuously, navigating exposed terrain for three or more hours each day, and doing it across five consecutive days with some sizable ascents. The hut lifestyle of early mornings, shared spaces and no recovery days is also part of the physical reality too. Oh, and you’ll be carrying all your stuff throughout.

  • Daily effort: Plan for 5-7 hours moving each day, with the via ferrata sections running 3-4 hours within that. Day six is the longest at around seven hours, including approximately four hours on the via ferrata. For three of the four via ferrata days, you’ll also be carrying your overnight stuff as you move between huts.

    Ascent: Between 700m and 1,000m per day across variable terrain: rock, scree, ladders, and ledges.

    Arms and upper body: A via ferrata uses your whole body. You’ll be using grip strength, pulling yourself up ladders and bracing on exposed sections, all of which uses muscles a normal hiking week wouldn't touch.

    Exposure: The Bocchette Centrali and Bocchette Alte both include sustained sections with significant drops on one or both sides. A genuine head for heights is non-negotiable for this trip.

    Consecutive days: Five active days with no rest day built in. You need to arrive fit enough to handle day five feeling like days one to four haven’t already happened.

    Heights: There’s a lot of them. You’ll be in the mountains, often tackling routes with drops on one or both sides. If you’re even remotely scared of heights, this isn’t the trip for you.

    Communal living: For four out of six nights on this trip you’ll be staying in dorm rooms in busy mountain huts. This means shared living spaces, communal bathrooms and dining areas used by everyone - excellent for sharing stories and meeting new people, terrible if you’re a very light sleeper. 

  • This trip is for regular hikers with mountain experience who are ready to step it up, or anyone who’s been bitten by the via ferrata bug and wants to try more. You don't need prior via ferrata experience, but solid mountain fitness, an ease with heights, and confidence on steep and rocky terrain is necessary. If you regularly hike with real ascents, run, or train consistently, you're in the right territory. If your last big walk was a while ago or you felt a bit wobbly last time you were up high, this is not the trip to ease back in on.

  • For the first and last night of the trip you’ll stay in a comfortable 3-star hotel with twin rooms, hot showers, a small wellness centre and a restaurant.  For the rest of the adventure you’ll be bedding down each night in rifugio -  traditional mountain huts. Here you’ll be in shared dormitories with other Gutsy Girls on your trip, eating hearty prepared meals and swapping stories with other adventurers.

  • Fuel up with breakfast, enjoy packed lunches on the trails and then tuck into dinners at the mountain huts along the route. Embrace regional cooking and alpine specialities - big, filling plates designed for people who have been outside all day.

    Dietary requirements can be catered for, however we need to know in advance and options may be very limited. In the mountain huts the kitchens are very basic so it can’t be guaranteed that there would be no cross contamination. Drinks and anything extra are on you.

Itinerary

  • Day 1

    Evening: Catch our transfer to the hotel with the group. Check in, dinner, meet your guide and hear what the week has in store. Pack your kit and get an early night.

  • Day 2

    Morning: Breakfast, kit check, and then you're off. Hike through a forest, before the terrain changes and you’re faced with the rocky walls of the Brenta mountains around you.

    Afternoon: Lunch, then continue the hike through steep terrain to tonight's hut.

    Evening: Dinner and settle in for your first night of your hut-to-hut adventure.

    Hiking time: 5h

  • Day 3

    Morning: Breakfast, then time to tackle your first Via Ferrata. Metal ladders and iron pegs help you wind your way up the eastern side of the Brenta Group. 

    Afternoon: The route ends near Rifugio Tosa Pedrotti - expect sweeping views across Crozzon di Brenta and Cima Tosa. 

    Evening: Dinner at the hut. First via ferrata done. 

    Hiking time: 5h 30mins (3h via ferrata).

  • Day 4

    Morning: Breakfast, then straight onto the Brentari Route, a high-altitude traverse across ledges and scree on the south face of Cima Tosa, pushing up to the pass of the same name.

    Afternoon: Descend toward the Ambiez Glacier, then take a short walk that loops through rocks and high-mountain pastures before arriving at your refugio for the night. 

    Evening: Dinner, drinks and take in the views.

    Hiking time: 7h30m  (3h via ferrata)

  • Day 5

    Morning: Breakfast, then prepare for the most epic section of the whole trip - the Bocchette Centrali. This via ferrata route will take the whole morning and covers a passage underneath Campanil Basso, one of the most famous peaks in the Dolomites.

    Afternoon: Stop for lunch, then carry on the Via Feratta, traversing a passage underneath Campanil Basso, one of the most famous peaks in the Dolomites.

    Evening: Last night in the hut - rest, eat and share stories. 

    Hiking time: 5h (3h via ferrata)

  • Day 6

    Morning: Fuel up at breakfast for the most technical section of the whole trip, the Bocchette Alte;, a route of vertical ladders, exposed ledges and incredible views.

    Afternoon: Climb the famous Scala degli Amici, a 30-metre ladder that leads to the highest point of the entire route. Finish the via ferrata, then enjoy the easy hike back to the cable car for a trip down the valley.

    Evening: Back to the hotel for a celebratory dinner, hot shower, sauna and the kind of satisfaction that's hard to put into words. 

    Hiking time: 7h (4h via ferrata)

  • Day 7

    Morning: Breakfast, check out and jump in the transfer to the Aquagardens.

    Afternoon: Enjoy a last soak before taking the transfer back to the airport.

Dates

    • Tue 14 July - Mon 20 July 2026

Price

Private Room: £2300 (approx. €2640 / $3105)

Twin Room: £2400 (approx. €2754 / $3240)

  • Gutsy Girls is a UK-based adventure company welcoming women worldwide. Prices are in pounds (£) with estimates in euros (€) and US dollars ($). The final amount is dependent on your card provider’s conversion rate at time of payment and may fluctuate.

  • Secure your spot with a 30% deposit; the balance is due 45 days before the trip.

Included

  • 6 nights accommodation, 2 nights in 3* hotel, 4 nights in mountain huts, shared dormitory

  • All meals - 6 breakfasts, 5 lunches and 6 dinners

  • English-speaking mountain guide throughout

  • Via ferrata equipment hire — harness, helmet, ferrata set

  • Transfers from meeting point to trailhead and back

  • Ticket to Aquagardens (towel and robe included)

  • Daily transfers

  • Return private transfer from Verona airport

  • Gutsy Girls host throughout

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    • Flights to Verona

    • Personal travel insurance (required)

    • Departure day lunch at Aquardens

    • Cable car on day 6 — approx. €20 per person

    • Drinks and personal extras at huts and hotel

    • Sleeping bag liner — hire available for €18, or bring your own

  • Cancellations are effective from the date we receive your written notice via email. The following fees apply:

    • 100% of the trip cost if cancelled 44 days or less before the trip.

    • 30% of the trip cost if cancelled 45 days or more before the trip.

    Full terms and conditions are available for review before you book and make payment

  • Guaranteed to run

    Some of our dates have a tick ✔ next to them — that means they’re locked in and happening, no matter what. Book your flights, we’re going.

    Minimum numbers required

    If there’s no tick, we need at least 4 people signed up to confirm the adventure.

    Don’t worry — we’ll keep you in the loop on numbers as they come in, and we’ll give you the green light (or full refund) 30 days before departure.

    Just hold off on booking any flights until you hear from us.

Travel

  • Flights aren’t included, but we’ve listed some options that align with the group transfer times to make planning easier.

    Women join us from all over the world, so this isn’t a complete list — just a helpful starting point. You’re welcome to book any flights that work with the transfer times.

    Transfers run on a fixed schedule and can’t be delayed, even if your flight is listed. You’re responsible for arriving on time.

    We strongly recommend travel insurance that covers delays, cancellations, and missed connections.

    London to Verona - British Airways

    Arrival Day: LGW 7:50 ✈ VRN 10:55 | BA2588

    Departure Day: VRN 17:50  ✈ LGW 21:00 | BA2590

    Flying from elsewhere? Get in touch — we can help you work out the best connection.

  • Transfers run on a fixed schedule and can’t be delayed, even if your flight is listed. You’re responsible for arriving on time.

    We include one shared transfer on both the arrival and departure days of your trip.

    Arrival Day: Pick up at Verona Airport at 11:55

    Departure Day: Drop off at Verona Airport at 15:50

FAQs
FAQs

Packing List

    • Via ferrata set (lanyard and carabiners)

    • Harness

    • Helmet

  • Find our detailed packing list here.

Questions?

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