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Total duration time: app 6 hours
Grade of difficulty: exacting
Max difference in height climbing: 400 m
Max difference in height descenting: 1500 m
Max altitude: 3345 m

The departure is from the Rifugio Sapienza ( at 1.910 m a.s.l. - South Etna) in the afternoon to precise the exactly time according the season.

You take first a modern cable car afterwards a special off road minibus getting up to 2.900m to the area "Torre del Filosofo", where accompanied by authorized mountain guide you will reach by foot 3.300m surpassing the difference in height approximately of 400 m in 1,30 hour.

Arrived on the wide craterique area of the central cone, we visit the voragines of the peak zone which are always actives (ETNA).

The descent starts from the altitude of 3345m accompanied by unique scenery offered by sunset. Once reached the central cone in the total obscurity and out of any path or any trace, the descent continues long the Versante Sud where is possible explore the flows of the recent eruptions of 2001/02/03 in the different context full of the emotions.

Long whole this route you can admire the panorama spaced out by lights of the Ionic coast and thats of the Calabria Coast, realizing unforgettible your excursion.

Notes: The itinerary may be changed by the guide due to weather conditions, atmopherics troubles, snow storms, geodinamic activities and other similar reasons. Nevertheless is recommended begin in a good health for all participants and the absence of the pulmonary and heart's pathologies.