The Vezzana is the highest peak in the Pale di San Martino, a mountain group in the Dolomites

Dolomites

The Dolomites are a mountain range located in north-eastern Italy. It is a part of Southern Limestone Alps and extends from the River Adige in the west to the Piave Valley in the east. The northern and southern borders are defined by the Puster Valley and the Sugana Valley...

, northern Italy

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. It is located in the northern part of the Dolomites, between the Agordino and Primiero

Primiero

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 (provinces of Belluno

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 and Trentino). It has an altitude of 3,192 metres.

The peak is flanked by that of the Cimon della Pala

Cimon della Pala

Cimon della Pala, sometimes called Cimone and The Matterhorn of the Dolomites , is the best-known peak of the Pale di San Martino group, in the Dolomites, northern Italy...

. It was first ascended in 1872 by Douglas William Freshfield and Charles Comyns Tucker, who reached it from the Travignolo glacier and the Passo di Travignolo. Unusual for the time, they climbed the summit without local guides, as these had declined to go further at reaching the glacier