{"id":60139,"date":"2025-07-05T23:14:18","date_gmt":"2025-07-05T21:14:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=60139"},"modified":"2025-07-21T23:22:43","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T21:22:43","slug":"a-dizzying-high-speed-ascent-of-the-giau-pass-in-the-dolomites-with-an-fpv-drone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2025\/07\/05\/a-dizzying-high-speed-ascent-of-the-giau-pass-in-the-dolomites-with-an-fpv-drone\/","title":{"rendered":"A dizzying high-speed ascent of the Giau Pass in the Dolomites with an FPV drone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Advances in technology are making drones excellent tools for capturing images.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2025\/03\/07\/flying-over-and-skiing-on-mount-etna-in-the-middle-of-a-volcanic-eruption\/\">Flying over and skiing on Mount Etna in the middle of a volcanic eruption<\/a><\/rel><br \/>\n<rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2025\/01\/17\/a-spectacular-drone-flight-to-the-aiguille-du-midi-a-3842-metre-french-mountain\/\">A spectacular drone flight to the Aiguille du Midi, a 3,842-metre French mountain<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n<p>I've already shown the capabilities of FPV (first-person view) drones to reach a mountain, with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2025\/01\/17\/a-spectacular-drone-flight-to-the-aiguille-du-midi-a-3842-metre-french-mountain\/\">an ascent of the Aiguille du Midi<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2025\/03\/07\/flying-over-and-skiing-on-mount-etna-in-the-middle-of-a-volcanic-eruption\/\">an overflight of Mount Etna in the middle of a volcanic eruption<\/a>. But if you're like the protagonist of \"Top Gun\" and need speed, today you're going to get a considerable dose.<\/p>\n<p>Last October, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@platyfpv\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">PlatyFPV<\/a> <strong>published a fantastic video of a drone ascent of the Dolomites<\/strong> (the author of the video doesn't say so, but what we see is the <strong>Giau Pass<\/strong> in Veneto, the famous stage of one of the most famous stages of the Giro d'Italia). In this case, <strong>the ascent was made at high speed, reaching 130 km\/h<\/strong>, which makes for some dizzying images (<strong>WARNING<\/strong>: the video may cause motion sickness):<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"CRAZY FPV DRONE HIGH SPEED MOUNTAIN RUN (4K)\" width=\"665\" height=\"374\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YPNtouPtkJY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>You can see some screenshots of this spectacular flight here.<\/strong> And I'll leave it at that for today. After seeing this, I need some fresh air...<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/54635501043_78d4c71a68_o.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/54635501043_11cbe1dc00_c.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0px;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/54634403687_4e19645d4c_o.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/54634403687_826e31d7ea_c.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0px;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/54635480094_e8f477a512_o.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/54635480094_4afd7b3e94_c.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0px;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/54634403692_d1fbda4574_o.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/54634403692_a0a29724c2_c.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0px;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Advances in technology are making drones excellent tools for capturing images.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[19535,16882],"tags":[23375,7519,24774,11680],"class_list":["post-60139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-exploring-portada-eng","category-forests-and-mountains","tag-dolomite-alps","tag-drones","tag-giau-pass","tag-italy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60139"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60139\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}