
To enjoy the otherworldly Santnerpass Hütte, one must first earn it. Teetering atop the Rosengarten massif in the western Dolomites, the ascent involves a steel-cabled via ferrata followed by a switchback schlep to 2,734 metres. Atop awaits an A-frame oasis clad in galvanised sheet steel whose colour changes with the sun – a lighthouse in a sea of stone.