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Angela Giuffrida in Rome

Rescued British hiker billed €14,225 for ignoring rockslide signs in Dolomites

Wooden signpost on a trekking route near Rifugio Lagazuoi
The Alta Via 1 route includes the option of the Ferrata Berti, where the man sounded the alarm after becoming distressed by falling rocks. Photograph: Markus Thomenius/Alamy

A British hiker has been charged more than €14,000 (£12,000) by the Italian mountain rescue service after ignoring danger warnings in the Dolomites.

The man, aged 60, had to be rescued after venturing to the Ferrata Berti, a rocky mountain path at an altitude of 2,500 metres (8,200ft) in the San Vito di Cadore area of the northern Italian peaks where dozens of paths were closed last week because of the high risk of landslides.

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