Category Archives: Photo and video gallery

Photos, videos, short descriptions and maps of outdoor tours (one gallery may comprise several individual tours of mine).

Ascent to Kozi Wierch (High Tatras)

Description

Hiking and climbing tour from Kuźnice (1011 meters AMSL) to Kozi Wierch (2291 meters AMSL) on parts of the Orla Perć (“Eagle’s Path”), namely the section between Kozia Przełęcz and Przełączka nad Dolinką Buczynową.

Kozi Wierch is a mountain in the Polish part of the High Tatras (Tatry Wysokie) mountain range, and Orla Perć has the reputation being the hardest marked mountain tour in the High Tatras.… read more

Ascent to Kościelec (High Tatras)

Description

Hiking and climbing tour from Kuźnice (1011 meters AMSL) to Kościelec (2155 meters AMSL) via Schronisko Murowaniec (1500 meters AMSL), summer and winter 2024.

Kościelec, the “Polish Matterhorn”, is a mountain in the Polish part of the High Tatras (Tatry Wysokie) mountain range.

Photos and video

Summer

Winter

Map, Topography

Notes and recommendations

Winter: It’s a technical ascent especially on the last fifty meters, so Crampons … read more

Ascent to Świnica (High Tatras)

Description

Hiking tour from Kuźnice (1011 meters AMSL) to Świnica (2301 meters AMSL) via Schronisko Murowaniec (1500 meters AMSL) and Zawrat (2159 meters AMSL).

Świnica is a mountain straddling the border between Poland and Slovakia in the High Tatras mountain range.

Descent to Kasprowy Wierch (1987 meters AMSL), and using the cableway back down to Kuźnice.

Photos and video

Map, Topography

Notes and recommendations

Thunderstorms can be very dangerous and … read more