Tre Cime di Lavaredo in 5 days

Ten kilometres and about 400 metres of ascent in four hours; go anticlockwise from Rifugio Auronzo to reach the north faces before the clouds.

The first hut on the loop, at 2,344 metres and 45 almost flat minutes from the car park, serving canederli, strudel and barley soup.

The first spot on the route to catch the light, at 2,454 metres; at summer dawn the south faces turn from blue-grey to pink.

The classic view, at 2,405 metres and two and a half hours from the start: the three north faces lined up across the valley.

A mountain dairy turned refreshment hut at 2,283 metres; the lower return adds about a kilometre and 100 metres of climbing, and far fewer walkers.

The start of everything, at 2,320 metres, seven kilometres of hairpins above Lake Misurina; book a time slot online with your number plate beforehand.

Path 117 heads south from Rifugio Auronzo and in 35 to 40 minutes reaches a ledge above the jagged spires of the Cadini.

A lake at 1,754 metres below the toll road, ringed by firs and old Tyrolean-style hotels, with a flat 45-minute path around it.