White Friday (1916)
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White Friday was a series of avalanches on the Italian front of World War I. The most significant avalanche struck the Austro-Hungarian barracks on Mount Marmolada, killing 270 soldiers. Other avalanc
Marmolada in 2004
Remains of a destroyed Austro-Hungarian cache, Marmolada
White War
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The White War is the name given to the fighting in the high-altitude Alpine sector of the Italian front during the First World War, principally in the Dolomites, the Ortles-Cevedale Alps and the Adame
White Friday (1916)
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Austro-Hungarian trench at the peak of Ortler, the highest trench in the First World War (3,850 m (12,630 ft))
Alpine front, 1915–1917
Italian soldiers haul their cannon up a mountainside
Italian soldier using a cableway to reach extreme positions