Chapter 3

Photos and maps relating to Chapter 3, taken on the Adamello glacier at Lobbia Alta, Cresta Croce and at Cannone 149G.

These are not the photos that will go with Chapter 3, they are merely here to illustrate how the QR code system could work. Each photo and map can have an extended caption to add more content.

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Winding gear from a war-time Italian teleferica, too heavy to salvage.
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The author makes his way up to Passo dell'Ortles (3400m), a key position between Monte Zebru and Thurweiserspitze.
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A soldier stands guard next to battlefield burials on the Padon ridge. The Marmolada can be seen in the background.
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Crossing the Cevedale glacier to visit three 149mm howitzers that are possitioned on a rock in the middle of the glacier.
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Map of the Collio, prior to the 6th Isonzo. Dalmatian troops held these positions under appaling conditions and overwhelming odds for over a year.
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A glacial lake at the foot of Italian-held Monte Zebru. Monte Ortles can be seen at the top left, the highest point on the Italian front.
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Dog teams were the most efficient means of moving materials across snowy and icy terrain. More than 2000 were imported from Canada by the Italians.
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The River Isonzo (Soca) in the Bovec Basin. Monte Rombon can be seen in the top left of the photo.
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Austrian engineers building the Eisstadt, a small city dug withing the ice of the Marmolada glacier.
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The author's bike on the annoyingly steep Passo Tre Croce in the Dolomites.
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Loophole in Austrian positions at Ravelnik, Bovec basin. The battle of Caporetto was launched from here.
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Italian command post on the Monte Piano plateau.
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Tre Cime seen from Italian positions on Monte Paterno.
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The grave of Edward Brittain, beloved brother of Vera. Her ashes were scattered here when she died.
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The ossuary at Oslavia contains 57,000 burials from the battlefields of the Collio and Sabotino.
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"Napoleon's Bridge" across the Isonzo (Soca) just outside Kobarid (Caporetto), a vital crossing point for the Austrians pushing west in November 1917.
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Austrian forward observation post on the Kleiner Pal battlefield, reached by a tunnel dug into rock.
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Memorial to the Bosnian regiments who served on Monte Rombon.
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Monte Spil on the Altopiano where the Sassari Brigade and the 3rd Bosniacs fought during the Strafexpedition.
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Barbed wire on Monte Piano, one of the most "complete" battlefields inn Italy.
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The melting snows continue to reveal all sorts of war detritus, including himan bodies and unexploded ordnance.
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Croda da Lago, seen from Italian positions on the Tofane. The extraordinary beauty of this landscape never ceases to amaze.
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The author's bike next to a 30.5cm Skoda mortar, outside the Great War Museum in Rovereto.
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The Italian HQ for the Ortler sector (Capanna Milano) was an Alpine rifugio before the war, and is still one today.
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