Alpine route

It is also used to describe routes (trails, roads, and railroads) in other mountains with alpine conditions.

Occasionally, dangerous and exposed sections may be equipped with protection such as wire cables, chains, abseiling points, and bolts.

[3] Sometimes the routes have no signs, only cairns ("Steinmandl", little stone man) or poles marking the way.

Some routes require climbing skills of minor levels of difficulty (I and II according to UIAA).

[3] The first Roman road connecting Italy with today's Germany was the Via Claudia Augusta, completed in 46–47 AD, from Verona to the Reschen Pass, the Inn valley and the Fern Pass to Augusta Vindelicorum, today Augsburg.