The Dolomites: where extreme landscape meets extreme stillness

<p>The retreat centres that exist here — and there are few, by design — cater to a particular kind of need. The person who has tried everything else. Who needs not comfort but confrontation with something larger than themselves.</p><p>The programmes tend toward the austere: long walks at altitude, meditation in exposed positions, cold water immersion in alpine streams, simple food prepared without ceremony. There is no spa. There is no pool. There is the landscape, and what it asks of you.</p><p>Guests who come here consistently report the same quality of experience: a dissolution of the ordinary sense of self that is terrifying and then liberating in equal measure.</p>

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