Louise Atkinson, 55, has been named as the well-loved teacher who died while hiking on holiday with her partner John Dickinson, 58.
The couple took the wrong turn and ended up on a more challenging path during a trek in Catinaccio, a mountain rescue spokesperson said.
They found themselves at a high altitude via Ferrata cableway, which translates to ‘iron path’ in English.
A British woman has fallen to her death while hiking in the Italian Dolomites.
The 56-year-old, who has not been named by police, was reportedly trekking with her husband when she slipped and plunged 100ft.
Local reports suggest the woman was on the popular hiking destination of Catinaccio when she fell on to the rocks below, at around 2pm on July 24.
It came around a week after a 54-year-old hiker fell to his death nearby.
Earlier this month, an avalanche on the Dolomites killed nearly a dozen people when a huge chunk of ice detached from a melting glacier and sent a torrent of ice, rock and debris on to hikers below.
The Alta Via 2’s well-kept trails lead high into the Dolomites, where trekkers can climb sheer cliffs protected by cable-and-ladder via ferratas. (Patitucciphoto)
A local farmer chats with hikers beneath the Marmolada. (Patitucciphoto)
When I was 23, I might have fantasized about being on a trip just like this one: dreamy alpine terrain in the heart of Europe, adrenaline-fueled climbs, gourmet food served with a view, and, because I was a young man and an optimist and maybe a little naïve, a gorgeous woman at my side.
Ten years later, I have it all on Italy’s Alta Via 2—from the jagged Dolomites with their cliff-hugging via ferratas to the homemade rifugio dinners to Jen, literally an Italian model with brown eyes, a perfect smile, and legs and lungs forged by ski-mountaineering races all winter and skyrunning all summer. Fantasy come true? In every way but one. I just started dating someone back in Colorado, which makes things a little more complicated than 23-year-old me could have imagined.
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