The Voice of the Night
Spending the night alone in some remote place in the high mountains allows to experience a double sense of remoteness: the purely physical and the temporal...
The physical one is at least obvious, as after hours and hours of hiking we inevitably move away from our places of comfort. The temporal one is perceptible from the moment in which, when evening falls, it seems to have also traveled through time and thus to have found oneself in a dimension prior to our appearance on Earth.
Deafened by the continuous “fireworks” of the plain, which seems to reward the emptiness of “self-centeredness at all costs”, being able to experience such particular and essential moments reminds us how illusory human ambitions are, on a planet, moreover, which could quietly do without us.
From left to right: The Apostles, Money Glacier, Testa di Money, Roccia Viva, Becca di Gay, Testa di Valnontey, Testa della Tribulation.
Alta Valnontey, in the heart of the Gran Paradiso National Park.
YouTube channel “Organo Santuario della Consolata”
YouTube channel “ALPS pictures & tales”
Instagram @roberto.bertero
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©Roberto Bertero, All Rights Reserved. This image is not available for use on websites, blogs or other media without the explicit written permission of the photographer.
The Voice of the Night
Spending the night alone in some remote place in the high mountains allows to experience a double sense of remoteness: the purely physical and the temporal...
The physical one is at least obvious, as after hours and hours of hiking we inevitably move away from our places of comfort. The temporal one is perceptible from the moment in which, when evening falls, it seems to have also traveled through time and thus to have found oneself in a dimension prior to our appearance on Earth.
Deafened by the continuous “fireworks” of the plain, which seems to reward the emptiness of “self-centeredness at all costs”, being able to experience such particular and essential moments reminds us how illusory human ambitions are, on a planet, moreover, which could quietly do without us.
From left to right: The Apostles, Money Glacier, Testa di Money, Roccia Viva, Becca di Gay, Testa di Valnontey, Testa della Tribulation.
Alta Valnontey, in the heart of the Gran Paradiso National Park.
YouTube channel “Organo Santuario della Consolata”
YouTube channel “ALPS pictures & tales”
Instagram @roberto.bertero
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©Roberto Bertero, All Rights Reserved. This image is not available for use on websites, blogs or other media without the explicit written permission of the photographer.