I'm Italian and I had 2 great-grandparents who fought in the First World War, one was in the Bersaglieri and came back luckily while the other was a daring and he lost his life on the piave during an assault. Honor all the soldiers of the first war world real heroes.

Crazy to think these people had a life and now they're just frozen in the ice, unidentifiable.

My great great grandfather was part of the Gebirgsjäger in the Austro-Hungarian army and fought the Italians in WW1 he survived the war and although I never met him my great grand mother would show me pictures and tell me story's of how they would have to climb 90 degree angle cliffs and hoist huge guns up them and they would walk over massive, bottom-less crevice's and if someone fell down one they wouldn’t even bother to help because he was either dead or there would be no way to get them out. Crazy how horrible war is.

It must have taken a monumental effort to get that artillery piece up on that mountain

the father of my grandfather died there on the dolomiti mountains, during ww1 his body has never been found

Honor to all this men, both Italians than Austro-Hungarian Soldiers, who bravery gave their life for their Country when it was asked. My great grandfather was an Ardita (an Arditi Soldier) who died during the Monte Grappa Offensive 🇮🇹

I won't be coming home I won't be going anywhere I will guard this post forever Here on the Alpine slope, where I did my final stand I shall remain Among the ice and snow that binds me to this mountain A force of nature too strong, sent from above Where spirits lead the way, the winds will never fade White Friday, I'll take the Stairway to heaven I'm sky high, when I die I'll be immortal Forever, I never I won't return to Blood mountain, I am the Soldier of heaven I saw the end of war I watched the soldiers come and go And I kept my watch forever So many brave men fell in the battles that were raging down below I have seen it all but none will hear my story All of these years I have been frozen in time I cried for spring to come but here Winter remain! White Friday, I'll take the Stairway to heaven I'm sky high, when I die I'll be immortal Forever, I never I won't return to Blood mountain, I am the Soldier of heaven I always dreamed that I would, serve high above Where spirits lead the way, the winds will never fade White Friday, I'll take the Stairway to heaven I'm sky high, when I die I'll be immortal Forever, I never I won't return to Blood mountain, I am the Soldier of heaven White Friday, I'll take the Stairway to heaven I'm sky high, when I die I'll be immortal Forever, I never I won't return to Blood mountain, I am the Soldier of heaven ("Soldier of Heaven" - Sabaton)

I spent my first two years of military service in the 1.German Mountain Division, including basic training in winter time in the Bavarian Alps. We usually moved up to a level of 2000 meters. It sucked. Thinking about how those guys with less advanced equipment, under artillery and infantry fire and up to 3000 meters must have suffered is beyond my imagination. If you have to go to war, stay away from the mountains. It just sucks.

It's so sad. I never would die like this, who wants? The bodies of these young men have been lost 100 years ago and their relatives have never seen them. They died lost forever. Only for the madness of a bunch of men which have started a war and never fought.

They fought wherever they made eye contact, desert, snow, mountains, woods, villages/citys... So much blood shed. The world needs more love.

RIP Soldiers, Friend and Foe!

For those men that died and got frozen in time on the front, the war never really ended. Its rather sad.

I’m so glad some of these boys are finally coming home. It’s been long enough, may they rest in peace at last.

Respect their duty They fight for their country More than 357 000 italian soldiers are wounded,die and even lost and never found during the war in alpine mountain REST IN PEACE 🇮🇹

Many men killed on the Italian front lost their lives to avalanches, both from natural slippage and man made avalanches. Absolutely horrible what these men went through

Theoretically,if the DNA in the skin isn't totally gone these soldiers could be identified and restored to the family

May those recovered finally be relieved of their duty and be given a proper burial.

My great-grandfather fought in northern germany, when He got damaged at his had by a grenade, the soliders thougt He is dead. But He was still alive and walked with this grenade splinter in his head something like 200km...

I can only hope they had tags and can go home to lay in peace in their towns and villages....Be at peace boys u earned it....No matter what side soldiers deserve great respect and should be repatriated and buried with honours.....

We call it La Guerra Bianca, The White War. My grandfhater and his 3 brothers fight in the Carso mountains. My g.f wounded permanently, one of brothers missing in action. Giampiero from Italy

Come non piangere, vedendo i resti dei nostri antenati? Meritano tutti, anche i nemici, di essere seppelliti, di tornare a casa, così da poter essere ricordati da chi aspetta da più di 100 anni.

My grandfather fought on this front. Luckily all he lost was a few of his toes.

That cannon on the top still stands out proudly even after all these years of being long forgotten.

Fathers,Hasbands,Sons...lost in the mountains,no songs of valor for them,no poems of glory and heroism...The elements gave them the last hug...the last kiss...and the cold wind sings for them an eternal lullaby.I hope they got a proper burial...at least those who were found.

I just said a prayer while this music was playing and I can not explain to you the thoughts and feelings that went through me. How blessed we are, how much we have been given. Its truly unbelievable.

The worst thing : it happens again and again and again all over the world ! IT will never Stop......

R.I.P respect from Finland Anne and Ilkka

Thanks for this beautiful movie . On those Mountains my grandfather fought as well as many others , I do also live in that region and somehow for Us those Mountains are quite " holy" for the terrible events happened there last century . In the honor of Them , doing the best because It will never happen again . RIP

came hier from the Sabaton song that is coming out. anyone els to? may they rest in peace....

I hope these brave men's remains can be identified, and then reinterred with the respect they deserve. Great clip - just sad, as it reflects both the stupidity and futility of war! R.I.P.

Every true Italian, has a grandfather who fought in the Alps. My two grandfathers too; One of them was a "bersagliere" and weeping each time he talked of war days

Grandfather fought on that front in WWW1. It was something he would rarely ever talk about .

How surreal... do you think any of these men could even comprehend that we would watch this video of them a century later? May you all rest in peace.

Some of these brave heroes may not be finally going home to be buried with the dignity they deserve. May they now rest in peace.

White friday. Soldiers of heaven now!

"All gave some, some gave all"

A soldier is trained to fight and defend his country, his platoon, his fire team. Gone and never forgotten

可憐無定河邊骨，仍是深閨夢裏人。Two verses from a Chinese poem, roughly meaning: pity that the bones lying along the banks of the Wuding River, may still be their men in dreams of those back home.

If you think you are having a hard life, think about those poor bastards freezing to death! Very sad.

Just came fomr 'soldier of heaven' I never thought of the alps. Or any war happening on the top of the world... It's depressing to now understand.. There's soldiers up there that aren't coming home.

All those well preserved live unexploded artillery shells. Very dangerous! Those rounds are just as live as they were back then.

It saddens and angers me these brave men died so horribly for a world that is just not worth it now. I will remember them 🙏💞🙏

White Friday 1916 10,000+ soldiers died in an avalanche. Prayers for their souls.

This was pretty sad to see these young men on both sides die in a cold desolate place on top of the world and remain there for a century. I knew an old Italian gentleman who fought in WW I for the Italians up in these mountains. He said many of his comrades were lost forever by avalanche. These men may be some of his friends.

Onore a voi soldati italiani .R.I.P

To have died in such an undignified and horrific way is unimaginable and to be buried without a grave perhaps with someone still waiting for you to get home without knowing you had already gone, nobody deserved that and it’s an absolute tragedy that it happened.

Sie haben es verdient das man ihnen Gedenkt !Egal an welcher Seite der Front Sie Gedient hatten.

I’ve been really interested in anything ww1 lately. I want to learn so much more about it. Thank you for the video.

History, written in ice; so many life, so many fates; thanks jmantime!

Kinda tough to watch. I can't imagine what these poor souls went thru just to end up where they're at. Every corps used to be an extremely motivated person.

So sad. My grandfather fought in the First World War as well for Austria-Hungary. He came back thankfully to make my father. He had medals he never wore and scars he couldn't leave off. So much grief over ideals and politics now as obsolete as the weapons they used.

ONORE e PACE ai nostri ragazzi che hanno dato la vita x il nostro paese!!! W GLI ALPINI!!!

My Nona was orphaned by the war, the Nuns took her in until her older brother could send for her. She was 12 years old, from a small village on the Austrian, and Italian border. How sad. And unnecessary.

Very moving, but from a war strategy perspective I couldn't understand why any country would fight from the Italian Alps. Such an extreme hostile environment which is not easily accessible and makes fighting war next to near impossible. These poor men would have endured altitude sickness, frostbite, starvation, lack of ammunition and cover from the elements - and still manage to muster up the will to fight and defend. Torments me thinking about it, but sheer admiration to these brave men who gave up so much. Very moving, thank you.

One of my greatgrandfathers was an austro-hungarian soldier fighting in the Alps. What my grandmother told me, that in 1918 all the Austrian soldiers were permanently hungry. After the Austria Hungary collapsed in autumn 1918, he went home to southeastern Moravia. Almost immediately he was called to arms and fight in the war for Slovakia against Hungary. Both wars he survived.

Great work! Thank you. So many lost lives. A real statement of the truth of war.

Mamma mia, impressionante! Viva gli Alpini, ragazzi giovanissimi, morti per un ideale, morti per l' Italia! Gloria ed eterno riposo ai morti di ogni nazione, morti in guerra. Pace a loro 🙏

I have family in Germany, Italy, France, Austria, Switzerland, UK, Ireland, Australia, Russia, Hungary, Poland, Bulgaria and during both world wars most men were under arms and fought against each other... In 1942, a French cousin was at lunch when the maid came in a hurry and said " Monsieur, Monsieur il y a un officier boche qui vous demande " (a German officer is asking for you)... The cousin goes to the door and sees a German officer in great uniform and iron cross who asks " Are you Charles Pxxxx ? " Yes ! " Are you Charles Louis Pxxxx ? " Yes ! The officer takes my cousin in his arms and said " Ach... cousin... " Sad but true...

May God bless them all.

my grandfather fought there for the Italian army and told many stories. I have his army cap.

At least they finally get to go home hopefully to see their families before being laid to rest. RIP

I couldnt imagine what them boys went through.

Hey guys got some awesome/ interesting information. The band Sabaton just released a new song that is about the men who fought and died on the Alps. Very good I must say

Fighting for the Routhchild Bank

Are two soldier of the Austria-Hungarian empire in ww1 alpine troops ( kaiserjager) not kill to Italian troops but from nature, this was a war on the dolomiti mountains 2700- 3600 meters, the real enemy for the Italian troops and Austrian troops was only nature and ice with more more snow, R.I.P. brothers++++Adamello glacier(Trento) Italy.

Heroes and victims alike. RIP might we never forget them.

WW1 and WW2 are basically the same war with a 20 year truce. The treaty of Versailles ensured that the war would begin again. It is called a world war because nearly every nation was involved. If they, the nations, were not actually involved in the fighting. They were supplying economic support to the combatants. Further down the comments someone said that South America were not involved. So giving war criminals safe conduct to live or pass through their countries, was an act of neutrality? Not all S. American countries did this, but a lot did.

Many of these men were killed by rock fragments blasted away by the exploding shells. So sad, but they died long ago,

when they find these bodies do they take them down the mountain for possible ID and a proper burial?

To be lost in a senseless war...how many families were left not knowing if their men were even given a proper burial?! These poor souls look like they were left where they fell!!!

What you are looking at was a young man, a son, a father, a brother in the prime of his life. Peace is such a better idea.

it is a horrible death

Veterans..........unknown soldiers..........sons.........fathers............WWI was a great case of utter waste! Read the poem. " The General"

RIP to all the brave men who fought and died in the alpine front o7

I can imagine their fear.. I‘m a grown man and almost crying.

Someone’s son, loved by a mother. What a waste.

those artillery shells were not fired. they have no rifling marks on the driving bands

Yeah the video didn't show them hauling those cannons up 10,000 foot mountains,but they did . Regardless of the situation they did amazing things. TRUE BAD ASSES.

Isn't it sad how nowadays, we find their corpses and think that it's sad, yet their dead bodies are often everything we remember of this conflict so many wanted to participate in ? Like, most men back then knew they might die, yet they went to war to solve it.

My grand-grand father had much better luck, he just migrated to Brazil in 1913, as 22 years old adventurous man! He scaped certain death in that front. My respects to all Austrians/Austrian-Hungarian who survived those heroes of WWI, a tragic adventure with Germany, which also resulted in the destruction of the A-H Empire.....

This is so sad 😥

My grandfather fought in the Monte Grappa front on the Italian side and my grandmother lost her first husband in the same front.

i am a huge fan of your videos. thank you for the effort you have made to make them. best wishes.

It all could've been avoided Just by going down the right street

1 John 5:19「We know that we originate with God, but the whole world is lying in the power of the wicked one.」

The father of my grandma was an Austro Ungarian officer. He' s been seriously injured in combat and then he died for tetanus...

Lost but not forgotten R.I.P. Respect to all who served and gave their lives for their country.

RIP Soldiers!

Very sad

That clenched hand. Tells it all.

This is sobering. Any one of those soldiers can be one of my great Uncles. They saw the artillery fragments and bullets take their friends. But it was the snow that saved them from that death. And it was the snow that saved them forever on that mountain. There's no sides anymore. Only the families who have soldiers at their post's no longer enemies. But Brothers for eternity guarding the peace they died for.

Another example of how common people are allowed to die for the profit of the happy few. War is not the solution....its just to make rich people richer. Put the children of the richest ,. money makers of a war , in the frontline and see how quick wars would end....

friends of Oetzi who also got shot to death with an arrow 5300 years ago...and he never sees the writing on the wall...give Südtirol back to were it belongs...Austria. oldest German inscriptions in the churches about 1200... 800 years ago.

Their families never knew where they were. Now we know but cannot tell them as they have all died waiting.

I cant imagine what it would have been like in WW1 on the Italian front with none of the technology we have today, i can only imagine being on the crew carrying those guns and supplies up the alps, i imagine many froze and many got maimed if they weren't killed in action, unbelievably brave !

Relics. No apostrophe.

sad all these young men fighting for the ego of a few left behind never to be seen by their loved ones and families again

Incredible. Amazing. And all for what? To what ends? I guess it's all part of our journey.

I had family in that war and I just can't imagine what they all went through ❤️💔

Battlefield 1?