photos by: Francis
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This is the second highest surfaced pass in the Alps, and the most dramatic of all the high passes. It is entirely in Italy, but the Umbrail which forms a third side to this pass crosses the Swiss border.
It is an exceptionally long climb from the east, from the west it is less arduous. Both sides have numerous spectacular hairpin bends - to the west these are heavily engineered to climb out of a gorge, to the east the road is narrower and rather rough as the bends claw up the mountainside towards the summit.
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