In recent histories of Victorian mountaineering the Dolomites figure only sparingly. They are absent in the important monograph by Peter Hansen (2013) as well as in the acclaimed bestseller by Robert Macfarlane (2008), cursorily mentioned in the more specific account by Ann C. Colley (2010), hardly referenced in the historical synthesis by Andrew Beattie (2006), partly noted in the biographical excursus on Victorian mountaineers by Trevor Braham (2004), and largely unconsidered in popular books, such as those by Fergus Fleming (2001), Reuben Ellis (2001), and Simon Thompson (2014), which mainly celebrate the Alpine adentures of the so-called Golden Age of British mountaineering and its legacy. To find some attention paid to the Dolomites in the context of British alpinism we have to return to the old monograph on Victorian mountaineers by Ronald Clark (1953) and its illustrated companion (1956); while, again, the almost contemporary work by Robert Irving omits them almost completely (1955). Despite their recent inclusion in the World Heritage List, and the acknowledgement in the unesco nomination document of the pioneering contribution of British travellers to their earliest promotion, the historical geography of the Dolomites still represents, for Anglo-American scholarship, a blind spot of academic inquiry.