Cortina d'Ampezzo Trentino-Alto Adige announced that they are to commission a feasibility study to build a new line between Calalzo, Cortina and Toblach. Cortina has attracted many distinguished guests, often inspiring them in their creative work. They include the Italian novelists Dino Buzzati (1906–1972), author of "The Tartar Steppe", Goffredo Parise (1929–1986) and Fernanda Pivano (1917–2009). Ernest Hemingway, author of "A Farewell to Arms", also arrived in the area in 1918 as a young ambulance driver. Other notable visitors include John Ball (1818–1889), the Irish mountaineer and naturalist who climbed Monte Pelmo in 1857, the Italian mountaineers Emilio Comici (1901–1940), Angelo Dibona
Arthur Gibson (cricketer, born 1889) promoted to full lieutenant in 1911. He served throughout the First World War on torpedo boats, and commanded torpedo operations on the destroyers HMS "Crane", HMS "Myrmidon", HMS "Acheron" and HMS "Rattlesnake". After the war, he trained as a physical education specialist and served at Naval training establishments across the 1920s and 1930s, with a stint as commander of HMS "Heliotrope", an Azalea class sloop, in the West Indies from 1928 to 1930. He retired from the Navy with rank of commander in 1935. Arthur Gibson (cricketer, born 1889) Arthur Kenneth Gibson (19 May 1889 – 28 January 1950) was