COL DI LANA

an Alpine peak, 4,815 feet above sea level, above the road from Falzarego to the Pordoi Pa , in the Dolomites. It was the center of military operations between Austrian and Italian forces, during the World War. During April, 1916, there was a sanguinary struggle for po e ion of this peak, which had important strategic value. The Italians had repeatedly attempted to take the peak by frontal attack, unsucce fully and with great lo . Finally the Italian engineers began mining and on the night of April 18 the top of the peak was blown off by the Italian mine explosion, only 164 Austrians out of more than 1,000 occupying the position surviving. Henceforward the position remained in the hands of the Italians.