Mount Ferra (3094 m) is a mountain in the Cottian Alps, rising in Italian territory in the upper Varaita Valley, in the province of Cuneo, between the towns of Bellino and Pontechianale.
From this point, it makes an arc with the concavity to the southwest, first heading approximately eastward to elevation 3048, then southeast and south-southeast to the summit of Mount Ferra.
The area is affected by a number of faults with a general north-south trend, with a slightly concave trace to the west; to the east of the easternmost of these faults, toward the Bondormir pass and below the walls of the Fiutrusa valley, the Jurassic-Cretaceous ophiolitiferous calcareous schists of the Gastaldi greenstone complex emerge.
One climbs the scree slope with a free path, encountering at one point a trail that leads up to the summit.
One of these routes is the Y-shaped couloir on the NE buttress, which can be reached by ascending the Fiutrusa valley from Pontechianale; it is a classic ice climb, with a difficulty rating of D.[8] A real icefall, on the other hand, is the Grassi-Tessera gully, which can be reached by ascending from Sant'Anna di Bellino to the Bondormir pass.