Tourist riding electric unicycle spotted on Dolomites hiking trail

Italian scientists travelling to measure Marmolada glacier ‘astonished’ when visitor overtook them on rocky path

Researchers monitoring a melting glacier on the Marmolada, the largest peak in the Italian Dolomites, said they were astonished to witness a tourist navigating one of its trails on a self-balancing scooter.

The group, from the University of Padua’s Museum of Geography, had been making its way down the mountain’s glacier of the same name after carrying out measurements on its retreat when they encountered the man on a path at an altitude of about 2,600 metres.