Small hiking and mountaineering tours in Europe.
Hiking tours from Starý Smokovec (1010 meters AMSL) to Priečne sedlo (2352 meters AMSL) via the Zamkovského (1475 meters AMSL) and the Téryho chata (2015 meters AMSL).
Descent to the Zbojnícka chata (1960 meters AMSL) and from there walking back to Starý Smokovec.
Note: all the principle mountain saddles are highlighted.
I recommened wearing crampons or spikes on … read more
Günther Messner was a twenty-four year old mountaineer from Villnöß, South Tyrol (Südtirol), who perished in the Himalaya mountain range more than five decades ago.
He was a younger brother of Reinhold Messner, who himself had been involved in the events leading to his brother’s disappearance at the merciless Nanga Parba mountain in June 1970.
In the 2000s, human remains of Günther Messner were discovered at the … read more
The Západné Tatry (Western Tatras) mountain range in Slovakia has slipped my attention as a destination for hiking and mountaineering tours until quite recently.
Visitors not only tend to confuse the western part of the High Tatras (where the famous peaks Kriváň and Rysy are located) with this mountain range, but the Western Tatras also get vastly overshadowed by the popularity of its eastern counterpart.
It took me some … read more
