With trench maps or direct knowledge of sites, they could recover most, but not all, of the small depots of ammunition and goods along the Italian highest lines, but could find very little around the Imperials positions. Without knowing were to search, digging the snow blindly was simply useless. Most of the cableways, without maintenance for 8 months, were damaged and unusable, so that most of the ammunition found on the highest positions was simply piled up and exploded. I personally found traces of this in a couple of places were hundreds of cartridges are scattered around, cracked and twisted. Found on the Vitelli glacier.
All photos are by the author.