Parco Nazionale dello Stelvio Warnings Or Dangers Tips by lotharlerch

Easy access but...

The road makes the access to extreme Alpine beauties easy but this does not mean that it is therefore less dangerous. As long as you remain on the road and the parkings it is fairly safe (but on all moutain roads the possibility of stonefall exists, in particular in areas like this, while driving one can often see minor stones on the road.This means that they fell down to the road in the last couple of hours (otherwise they had been removed by the road service). And as soon as you walk away from the road you are exposed to the various sorts of Alpine dangers. Under no circumstances you should walk on the glaciers without the proper equipment. Crevasses, sometimes up to 100 m deep can be everywhere and are often hidden under snowbridges which sometimes hold when people pass them but sometimes not.