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Rescues
A spring storm on the Walker Spur caught two French climbers at the second band. The Aosta Valley rescue service brought them off the wall by long-line in a four-hour window between weather systems.
Mountain Towns
Between the close of the ski lifts on the Cresta d'Arp and the opening of the via ferrata routes above Val Vény, a town of 2,800 at the foot of Mont Blanc takes its annual breath. A report from the Via Roma and the Skyway terminal.
Cartography
Inside the Istituto Geografico Militare's Aosta Valley project, where a 1934 mapping convention is being slowly reconciled with modern lidar.