Marmolada History...
During the First World War, the Austrian-Hungarian soldiers built 8 kilometres of ice-caves inside Marmolada glacier. Their idea was to reach the Italian positions on Marmolada without the danger of enemy-fire. The “City of Ice”, called "Eisstadt" was built in 11 months (May 1916 - April 1917): inside there were beds, kitchens, deposits for the munitions. The main problem was the movements of the glacier: in the 1918 the city disappeared.

In the sixty years another army arrive on the Marmolada Glacier: the army of a particular kind of tourism, wich one that not respect the environment. The weapons of this army are: cable car, big pylons, big buildings for the cable car stops.
The result of the war of this army is a monster called "Marmolada cable car" against wich many ambientalist associations (like Mountain Wilderness) fight every day! The famous south wall became a big bin. Fortunately every year many voluntaries clean the "dirty" Queen of Dolomites.