Dolomite Mountains (0039 0436 7320; www.dolomitemountains.com) offers ski safaris staying at hotels and mountain refuges.

On March 26, 2009, Shane McConkey died while skiing in the Dolomite Mountains in Italy.

Fascinated by it, they wanted to see it at first hand, and wrote of it in their account The Dolomite Mountains: Excursions Through Tyrol, Carinthia, Carniola & Friuli (London, 1864).

The couple became engaged last summer while hiking in the Dolomite Mountains in Italy.

The accident happened Tuesday afternoon when an EA-68 Prowler, a Marine Corps electronic-surveillance jet, sheared a ski lift's cable in the Dolomite Mountains.

He also won the Dolomites Cup, a one-lap sportscar race that took place on a 188 mile circuit in the Dolomite Mountains in Italy.

The accident happened last Tuesday, when an EA-6B Prowler, a Marine Corps electronic surveillance plane, sliced ski lift cables near Cavalese in the Dolomite Mountains.

The Greens have visited Scotland, France and Italy's Dolomite Mountains.

Dating to the 17th century, the boatyard was built by the original gondola-makers, all natives of the Dolomite Mountains, where wood for boat-building was harvested.

Cazunzei are native to the Valle d'Ampezzo, in the Dolomite Mountains of the north.