During the First World War, Italy and the Austro-Hungarian Empire fought bloody battles on a very tough front: the Alps.<\/p>\n
The Alpine front was one of the most brutal stages of that war.<\/strong> Today, numerous ruins of old military positions from both sides remain there, silent witnesses to the horrors experienced there. One of these old positions was manned by the \"Gemona\" Alpine Battalion of the Italian Army,<\/strong> founded in 1887 and which fought in Val Dogna, in the Julian Alps,<\/strong> during the Great War.<\/p>\n In that mountainous area of \u200b\u200bnortheastern Italy, the Gemona Battalion held a position at 1,890 meters above sea level<\/strong>, consisting of several buildings and a small stone chapel used as a place of prayer. Today, the entire position is in ruins except for the old chapel<\/strong>, which was renovated into a mountain refuge. A few months ago, Austrian-based el monta\u00f1ero Steve Berger<\/a>mountaineer Steve Berger<\/a> posted a video in which he climbs to the refuge and spends a night there:<\/strong><\/p>\n
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