A solitary outdoor tour in a rough higher altitude environment can be a liberating and meditative experience.
It is a calculated risk though, so it goes without saying that tours in wintry conditions in remote mountain areas demand a great deal of careful preparation.
There will no one be around when problems arise, and you’ll lack the often very much needed morale support from your fellow hikers.
I am on around 1300 meters altitude and the snow is glittering in the early afternoon sun.
It is the beginning of December, but I am wearing a simple cotton T-shirt while standing at the roadside ditch, my hands on the handlebar of my MTB.
As I was climbing up this mountain half an hour ago, a jeep was passing me by, and the French driver asked me through the … read more
FAITH is the basis of all “miracles” and mysteries that cannot be analyzed by the rules of science
– “Think and grow rich”, chapter 3
It is the 29 April 1429.
English troops have been besieging Orléans, a city situated on the powerful Loire river in north-central France, for over six months.
The French royal army faces once more its main adversary in a gruesome and convoluted conflict … read more
