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Titicaca is the highest navigable lake in the world, located at 3812 meters above sea level. Its shores and small islands are home to the Aymara and Quechua who come from ancient cultures that lived in this area long before the Incas dominate.
There we could explore traditional villages where Spanish is the second language and where ancient myths and beliefs persist even today. One of the peculiarities of Lake Titicaca are the small floating islands inhabited by a tribe called the Uros. In these small islands visitors are welcomed and can even ride in one of the famous reed boats.
They picked us up by a confy bus in front of a church in La Paz at 7:00 a.m. We were driven with a professional private guide, Alvaro Monrroy Rivera to Copacabana, enjoying natural landscapes. Arrive at Copacabana cute village for a great luch at the . We tour and visit the sanctuary and the Virgen Morena. You will have the chance to meet small regional artisans and learn about some local culture.Then we will make our way to the Isla del Sol on a private boat with a local guide. We will walk through the "Inca Grand Staircase" and also see the Sacred Fountain, whose groundwater, it's said, would give youth and eternal happiness! After this we will have lunch at the local archaeological restaurant and then visit the small handicraft market and ancestral places to learn about the customs that still remain from the ancestors.On our return enjoy the scenery of the lake and painting the colors of nature at sunset.
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Sun Island (Isla del Sol):
Whirlwind half-day tours to Isla del Sol are strictly for the been-there-done-that crowd as the island definitely merits a night or two. That said, the majority of the ruins and associated sights are located on the island's northern half, which is off-limits to tourists. In the limited area you're allowed to roam you'll find a few small ruins, lookouts and walking trails, but most visitors simply kick back and enjoy the view.
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Easily the highlight of any Lake Titicaca excursion, Isla del Sol is a large island with several traditional communities, decent tourist infrastructure such as hotels and restaurants, a few worthwhile pre-Columbian ruins, amazing views, great hikes through terraced hills and, well, lots of sun.
The island’s permanent residents – a mix of indigenous peoples and émigrés – are distributed between the main settlements of Cha’llapampa, near the island’s northern end; Cha’lla, which backs onto a lovely sandy beach on the central east coast; and Yumani, which straddles the ridge above Escalera del Inca in the south and is the biggest town on the island. Unfortunately, due to a conflict between island communities, it is only possible to visit Yumani.
Extensive networks of walking tracks make exploration fairly easy, though the altitude and sun may take their toll: carry lunch and ample water. The sun was born here and is still going strong.
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Canon RF 100-500MM F4.5-7.1 L IS USM
PolarPro Circular Polarizer
I just realized that this was the first time I am uploading an image using 100 500. And also uploading an image after a long time. Anyway; now about the image.
Egypt has a place with massive sand dunes. That is called the Great Sand Sea. That place was accessible when I went to this region first time way back in 2010. However; after that the revolution happened and now that region is managed by Egyptian armed forces. So it is strictly off limit for civilians. So I was a bit sad and asked our local guide how to get some sand dunes. So he suggested this place. This is like the last part of the great sand sea. Initially I was not sure what to expect. But when I saw it; wow; it was beautiful.
Fact is; you don't really needs 100s of kilometres of sand to enjoy a desert or capture a beautiful image.
I was eying this composition from the start. In fact the search was for the sunrise. But then I observed my wife was waring this white dress and there was some wind. So I asked her to go on and walk for me a bit as otherwise during normal day the place looked a but less contrasty and the scale of it was not getting clear.
At the end I was happy with the result so thought of sharing with you all.
I have also captured a pretty detailed video of our visit to this less visited location of Egypt with all details needed to visit this place. You can find that here.
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Have a nice weekend.
Hope you will enjoy the picture.
Any suggestions or criticisms are always welcome.
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Young, wild Puma (Puma concolor) checks us out from behind the bushes. Local guides call him “Simba” and we saw him as a cub in 2018. After napping up on the hill, Simba noticed a Guanaco who had wandered almost directly below him. When Simba tried to sneak closer to the Guanaco he was quickly discovered. Here he’s either slinking away from the Guanaco or showing us how stealthy he could be.
The Totem Pole in Monument Valley. You need a local guide to visit Monument Valley at night. I can recommend Majestic Monument Valley tours if you are interested.
I am planning something different and new that I hope will be a lot of fun. I am planning Fantasy Nightscape Workshops during the July new moon. There will be 2 three day workshops, in July 2018, July 8 through 10, and July 11 through 13. Photographer Eric Gail will also be an instructor.
The workshop will be in the New Mexico Badlands. This area has multiple “Otherworldly” locations. This area gives us multiple sites that will be suitable for photographing fantasy scenes.
This workshop will be different in that we will compose the photos with Fantasy Figures. It will be like Comic Com under the Milky Way. We will first capture the composition in a standard fashion without a person and then with one or more fantasy figures in the photo. We will provide costumes including an Astronaut (full spacesuit), Alien, Predator, Lord of the Rings (Aragorn-Strider), Conquistador, Star Wars (including Darth Vader, Luke Skywalker, Obi Wan Kanobee, Jango Fett), Witches, and Wizards, Steampunk, and Medeival figures, Conquistador, etc.
If that is not imaginative enough you can bring your own fantasy outfit! We will be shooting in an Otherworldly setting so costumes or figures that fit the setting would be best. Suggestions are welcomed!
There will be lectures in the late afternoons for about 2 hours depending on group interest. We will cover and practice Landscape Astrophotography, Low Level Lighting, and Composition, in addition to planning, and scouting for Astrophotography. Additionally we will cover using smartphone apps such as TPE, Photopills, True DoF (Depth of Field) and Gaia GPS, and Google Earth, etc. These are instrumental in my planning and scouting.
If you are interested please mail me here at Flickr.
Thanks for all the kind support over the last year, it is much appreciated! A big thank you to the wonderful Flickr family!
This is Spiderweb Arch on Hunt's Mesa, Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park, Utah and Arizona. this is a relatively little know arch to the general public. predominantly because it is so hard to get to. The drive to Hunt's Mesa is an adventure in itself, with deep sand and rocky poorly defined tracks. In many areas the term "roads" would be an exaggeration. You also need a local guide.
This double arch is huge. It makes Double Arch in Arches National Park look modest in comparison. For scale please look at the small bright light in the right lower area of the photo. You might need to enlarge the photo, but there is a photographer there, Eric Gail, sitting by his tripod on a small ledge taking photos. He is virtually lost within the enormity of the cavernous space.
There is some distortion from trying to capture the inside of a sphere onto a rectangular photo. The two opening at the top are overhead. The roof opening on the right is considerably larger than the one on the left, but I am closer to the one on the left making it look as large. I had to move far left in the arch to include the Milky Way. Iy took longer than expected to figure out just how to include the whole arch within a photo. It would not fit on a 14 mm panorama vertically or horizontally. I finally captured it as a horizontal 12 mm fisheye panorama.
Many thanks to our guide Quanah Parker from Majestic Monument Valley Tours. He is a night photographer himself, and I probably would not have been able to climb the steep 45 degree walls without his help. When we arrived in the dark, it was like "you want me to do what?, lol. He got me up into the arch however, and then it was just a matter of trying to prevent your camera, tripod, and camera bag from sliding down the slope.
If you want to see places like this at night, Google " Majestic Monument Valley Tours, and ask for Quanah Parker.
For more images like this please take a look at Wayne Pinkston Photography .
Thanks for all the kind support! Hope you enjoy! A big thank you to the wonderful Flickr family. It's a pleasure to post here. Cheers, Wayne
The Waimangu Volcanic Rift Valley is the hydrothermal system created on 10 June 1886 by the volcanic eruption of Mount Tarawera, on the North Island of New Zealand. It encompasses Lake Rotomahana, the site of the Pink and White Terraces, as well as the location of the Waimangu Geyser, which was active from 1900 to 1904. The area has been increasingly accessible as a tourist attraction and contains Frying Pan Lake, which is the largest hot spring in the world, and the steaming and usually pale blue Inferno Crater Lake, the largest geyser-like feature in the world although the geyser itself cannot be seen since it plays at the bottom of the lake.
Waimangu is a Māori-language word meaning "black water". This name comes from the water that was thrown up by the Waimangu Geyser, which was black with mud and rocks.
From the 1890s onwards, the valley has gradually been re-populated naturally by plants ranging from hot water-loving algae and bacteria to mosses and many species of native ferns, shrubs and trees. These in turn support native birdlife including kererū, tūī, shining cuckoo, fantail, bellbird, and pūkeko, as well as introduced bird species such as mynah, magpie, finch and sparrow. A population of black swan thrives in the lower parts of the valley and on Lake Rotomahana. According to local guides, these have been introduced to the region from Western Australia by George Edward Grey in the 19th century along with wallaby.
As a rare eco-system completely naturally re-established following a volcanic eruption, Waimangu is protected as a Scenic Reserve, administered by the Department of Conservation NZ. The developing local native forest is the only current New Zealand instance of vegetation re-establishing from complete devastation without any human influence such as planting. Many of Waimangu's geothermal features are ranked as Category A – extremely important, of international significance.
Panorama, Nikon 810A, 14-24mm lens, 14mm, f 2.8, ISO 8,000, 30 sec., 8 vertical images
This is a small Ancient Puebloan-Anasazi-Cliffdweller Alcove in the Four Corners Region of the SW USA near Monument Valley. This lies in the Navajo Nation, and to visit this area you need a local guide. These ruins are some of the harder challenges to photograph. Generally you have a broad area you want to include in the image and very little space to work with or to move around in. Another issue in these images is focusing. You want to capture very close objects as well as the MW. Typically I use the hyper focus technique to get everything in one image. I originally tried this with a 14 mm lens horizontally, then a 12 mm fisheye lens, both of which had too much distortion in the cramped space. I then resorted to a pano with a 14 mm lens vertically, which worked out OK.
If you are interested in doing night photography around Monument Valley contact Majestic Monument Valley Tours and ask for Quanah.
For more images like this please take a look at Wayne Pinkston Photography .
Thanks for all the kind support! Hope you enjoy! A big thank you to the wonderful Flickr family. It's a pleasure to post here. Cheers, Wayne
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We stumbled on the Cache River wetlands in March 2023 and swung back to revisit on the fall trip to the Smokies.
We worked with a local guide (Cache Bayou Outfitters) for a sunset kayak tour of the bayou, and had a beautiful evening.
This area is the most northern Cypress swamp in the US and includes a fair number of huge, old-growth trees. And, no alligators.
This image is included in 5 galleries:- 1) "Antelope Canyon" curated by Daryshoot, 2) "LANDSCAPE VOL 18" by Jean-paul Vancoppenolle, 3) "Memories of Travels" by RD Glamour Photography, 4) "Tutto quanto non rientra nelle altre Gallerie 01" by Stefano Bacci and 5) "Antelope canyon - rw" by erwan 2949.
Upper Antelope Canyon, about 200m long, is a slot canyon in the American Southwest. It is on Navajo land east of Page, Arizona. Antelope Canyon includes two separate, scenic slot canyon sections, referred to individually as "Upper Antelope Canyon" or "The Crack" Antelope Canyon "or" The Corkscrew ". The Navajo name for Upper Antelope Canyon is Tsé bighánílíní, which means 'the place where water runs through rocks'. Lower Antelope Canyon is Hazdistazí (called "Hasdestwazi" by the Navajo Parks and Recreation Department), or 'spiral rock arches'. Both are in the LeChee Chapter of the Navajo Nation.
Antelope Canyon's winding walls were carved by fast flowing flash flood waters. The floods carried abrasive sand, rocks logs and other debris picked up by the sudden torrents. Over millenia, these floods sculpted natural corridors through the soft sandstone.
(sourced from internet)
This is a hand-held HDR. It is called "Eye of the Dragon" according to our local guide Eddie.
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Blue Ice in Greenland on my photo workshop last september. We sailed out in a thick early morning fog and got some nice mood with the blue ice in the ice fjord. www.arcticexposure.is
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The Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building or Tochō (都庁) for short. The main building (right) at 48 stories (242.9 meters) is the headquarters for the Tokyo Metropolitan Government with jurisdiction over one of the globe’s biggest cities.
Designed by Kenzo Tange and completed in 1990 at cost of around 1 bil US the complex takes up a whole city block. The exterior, with strong Gothic elements was designed to resemble an integrated circuit board. There are free access public viewing galleries at the top of each tower of the main building - check local guides for opening times. Staff in the building are just awesome :-)
This frame is taken from the courtyard between the Assembly Building and Main Building No.1, Building No.2 is in the centre of the frame. Was looking for the Fritz Lang vibe...
Fuji X-H1, Samyang 12/2 NCS, 60 secs at f/9, ISO 100
Breakthrough Photography 10 Stop ND filter.
A curious diversion: bit.ly/unfurly2
A big Thank You to all who view, fave and comment on my work :-)
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Lead Me to the Sea: A small stream leads to the ocean on the Great Barrier Island, New Zealand. The Great Barrier Island is one of a few Dark Sky Sanctuaries that exist. There is no municipal electricity. Electricity is mainly from generators or solar cells, and there is minimal light pollution after bedtime at night. If you want an excellent local guide there contact Carol @darkskysanctuary . Stacked Image, 14 light frames, 1 dark frame, 14-24 mms lens, 24 mm, f/2.8, 15 sec., ISO 12,800.
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I have written about the experience of driving around the Faroe Islands in a previous post, but I really need to write about the experience of hiking in the Faroe Islands. However, I feel I have way more to say than is short enough for a single post here. So I am going to break it up a bit over a few images.
If pressed I am not sure which is the better method to see the Faroe Islands: driving or hiking. There are very compelling points for both. Certainly hiking around the Faroes seems like the obvious answer and honestly it is an amazing way to see the land. If driving the Faroe Islands comes with a surprising sense of solitude, hiking then can often leave you completely isolated and to your own thoughts while traversing one incredible landscape after another.
Hiking here is an adventure. There are a few things to be aware of. The first is that no two trails in the Faroes are the same. The conditions you find at one will likely be quite different from the next. By this I am thinking specifically of the logistics of finding and following the trail itself. During my stay in the Faroe Islands I hiked trails that were composed in parts of gravel spread down clearly and easily. Then there were trails of wide packed dirt. These were also easy to follow. I hiked single track dirt trails too that meandered here and there. There were also several trails that were barely discernible boot tracks. And finally there were hikes with no trails at all. This latter category generally had markers of some type or another. One trail had posts with green tips. Another had stones. A third had cairns. In these cases you always had to be on the lookout for the next marker and mentally map out how you were going to get to it. These trails were often climbing or descending hills. Sometimes there were small marshes of soggy ground to squelch through. Almost all the time slippery muddiness was involved. I came back caked in mud up to my knees almost every day and slipped on more than one occasion. One hike I got lost in a field in thick fog on this very mountain (but not this particular hiking of it). I wandered around for ten minutes up a slope before retracing my steps and eventually picking the trail markers back up. The logistics of navigating the trails in the Faroes can range wildly from very simple and straightforward to complicate and requiring careful attention. In addition to that many of the trails involve lots of elevation and I soon discovered that the Faroese system of rating trail difficulty took for granted a certain amount of effort that I did not. There "moderate" trails were often what I would have called difficult and their "difficult" were extremely strenuous. There was a class above that even but I did not attempt any of those. Those trails are highly recommended to be left alone unless accompanied by a local guide.
In general I averaged about 10 miles a day with thousands of feet of elevation change spread out over those miles while I was in the Faroes. Of the hikes I did, all stood out but some of my favorites included Drangarnir (more on that in a later post), Hvíthamar (the best hike for the least effort), Trælanípa and then Klakkur, from which this image is made.
I did the Klakkur hike twice, two days in a row. The mountain sits above the city of Klaksvík, so it was very accessible while I was staying on the eastern side of the archipelago. The locals often walk up it all the way from the beginning, but it is possible to drive to an upper trailhead to shave off a couple miles (and a couple thousand feet of climbing). The hike is known for taking you out to a mountainous point that grants a stunning panoramic view of the surrounding inlets and islands but in truth the whole trek is characterized by stunning views, like this one looking back down toward the trailhead that I made on my return during the second day of hiking up here. This is a trail that also had it all in terms of conditions. Some parts were packed dirt, some gravel, some were no trail at all and cairn stones to mark the way. There was grassy meadows to cross and muddy hillsides and even snow. It is almost constant climbing the whole way until you reach the top of the ridge that runs to the viewpoint. It was exposed to the constant Faroese wind as well. But the views... I still think I preferred the view from Hvíthamar but Klakkur was a very close second.
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The Waimangu Volcanic Rift Valley is the hydrothermal system created on 10 June 1886 by the volcanic eruption of Mount Tarawera, on the North Island of New Zealand. It encompasses Lake Rotomahana, the site of the Pink and White Terraces, as well as the location of the Waimangu Geyser, which was active from 1900 to 1904. The area has been increasingly accessible as a tourist attraction and contains Frying Pan Lake, which is the largest hot spring in the world, and the steaming and usually pale blue Inferno Crater Lake, the largest geyser-like feature in the world although the geyser itself cannot be seen since it plays at the bottom of the lake.
Waimangu is a Māori-language word meaning "black water". This name comes from the water that was thrown up by the Waimangu Geyser, which was black with mud and rocks.
From the 1890s onwards, the valley has gradually been re-populated naturally by plants ranging from hot water-loving algae and bacteria to mosses and many species of native ferns, shrubs and trees. These in turn support native birdlife including kererū, tūī, shining cuckoo, fantail, bellbird, and pūkeko, as well as introduced bird species such as mynah, magpie, finch and sparrow. A population of black swan thrives in the lower parts of the valley and on Lake Rotomahana. According to local guides, these have been introduced to the region from Western Australia by George Edward Grey in the 19th century along with wallaby.
As a rare eco-system completely naturally re-established following a volcanic eruption, Waimangu is protected as a Scenic Reserve, administered by the Department of Conservation NZ. The developing local native forest is the only current New Zealand instance of vegetation re-establishing from complete devastation without any human influence such as planting. Many of Waimangu's geothermal features are ranked as Category A – extremely important, of international significance.
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The Waimangu Volcanic Rift Valley is the hydrothermal system created on 10 June 1886 by the volcanic eruption of Mount Tarawera, on the North Island of New Zealand. It encompasses Lake Rotomahana, the site of the Pink and White Terraces, as well as the location of the Waimangu Geyser, which was active from 1900 to 1904. The area has been increasingly accessible as a tourist attraction and contains Frying Pan Lake, which is the largest hot spring in the world, and the steaming and usually pale blue Inferno Crater Lake, the largest geyser-like feature in the world although the geyser itself cannot be seen since it plays at the bottom of the lake.
Waimangu is a Māori-language word meaning "black water". This name comes from the water that was thrown up by the Waimangu Geyser, which was black with mud and rocks.
From the 1890s onwards, the valley has gradually been re-populated naturally by plants ranging from hot water-loving algae and bacteria to mosses and many species of native ferns, shrubs and trees. These in turn support native birdlife including kererū, tūī, shining cuckoo, fantail, bellbird, and pūkeko, as well as introduced bird species such as mynah, magpie, finch and sparrow. A population of black swan thrives in the lower parts of the valley and on Lake Rotomahana. According to local guides, these have been introduced to the region from Western Australia by George Edward Grey in the 19th century along with wallaby.
As a rare eco-system completely naturally re-established following a volcanic eruption, Waimangu is protected as a Scenic Reserve, administered by the Department of Conservation NZ. The developing local native forest is the only current New Zealand instance of vegetation re-establishing from complete devastation without any human influence such as planting. Many of Waimangu's geothermal features are ranked as Category A – extremely important, of international significance.
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Schweiz / Berner Oberland - Schreckhorn
behind the clouds seen from Sidelhorn
hinter den Wolken gesehen vom Sidelhorn
The Schreckhorn (4,078 m) is a mountain in the Bernese Alps. It is the highest peak located entirely in the canton of Bern. The Schreckhorn is the northernmost Alpine four-thousander and the northernmost summit rising above 4,000 metres in Europe.
Geography
The Schreckhorn is located 10 km south-east of Grindelwald between the Upper and Lower Grindelwald Glacier. The region is made up of uninhabited glacial valleys, the great Aar Glaciers and the Fiescher Glacier. The summit of the Lauteraarhorn is located very close and reaches almost the same altitude. The highest peak of the Bernese Alps, the Finsteraarhorn, lies 6 km to the south.
Geologically the Schreckhorn is part of the Aarmassif.
Climbing history
The first ascent was on 16 August 1861 by Leslie Stephen, Ulrich Kaufmann, Christian Michel and Peter Michel. Their route of ascent, via the upper Schreck Couloir to the Schrecksattel and then by the south-east ridge, was the normal route for the following fifty years, but is now seldom used.
The peak had been attempted several times before this, most notably by the Swiss naturalist Joseph Hugi in 1828 and the guided party of Pierre Jean Édouard Desor (a Swiss geologist) in 1842. 'The ambition of hoisting the first flag on the Schreckhorn, the one big Bernese summit which was untrodden, was far too obvious for us to resist', Desor later wrote, but they climbed a secondary summit of the Lauteraarhorn by mistake.
The first ascent by the south-west ridge (AD+) – the normal route by which the Schreckhorn is climbed – was made by John Wicks, Edward Branby and Claude Wilson on 26 July 1902. They decided to climb the very steep ridge without the help of local guides and succeeded in reaching the summit. The north-west ridge (the Andersongrat, D) was first climbed by John Stafford Anderson and George Percival Baker, with guides Ulrich Almer and Aloys Pollinger on 7 August 1883.
The Strahlegg Hut, destroyed by an avalanche, has been replaced by the Schreckhorn Hut (2,520 m). The Schreckhorn may also be ascended from the Gleckstein Hut (2,317 m) and the Lauteraar Hut (2,392 m).
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Das Schreckhorn ist mit einer Höhe von 4078 m ü. M. der nördlichste Viertausender Europas. Es befindet sich in den Berner Alpen im Kanton Bern in der Schweiz. Geologisch gehört das Schreckhorn zum Aarmassiv und besteht aus Erstfeldergneis.
Besteigung
Erstbesteigung
Das Schreckhorn ist der bergsteigerisch anspruchsvollste Viertausender in den Berner Alpen. Die Erstbesteigung erfolgte am 16. August 1861 durch Peter und Christian Michel, Leslie Stephen und Ulrich Kaufmann.
Routen
Ausgangspunkt
Ausgangspunkt für alle Routen ist die Schreckhornhütte (2529 m ü. M.), erreichbar von Grindelwald (1034 m ü. M.).
Südwestgrat (Normalroute)
Schwierigkeit: ZS+, mit III. UIAA-Grad Felskletterei
Zeitaufwand: 6–7 Stunden
Nordwestgrat (Andersongrat)
Schwierigkeit: S
Zeitaufwand: 6–8 Stunden
Südpfeiler
Schwierigkeit: SS, mit V−. UIAA-Grad Felskletterei
Zeitaufwand: 8½–9½ Stunden
Albrecht von Haller
Das Schreckhorn ist einer der wenigen Berge, die bereits vor dem klassischen Zeitalter des Alpinismus europaweit, zumindest dem Namen nach, bekannt waren und auch Eingang in die klassische Literatur fanden: Wohl erstmals findet es, und zwar als einziger Alpengipfel, Erwähnung in Albrecht von Hallers Gedicht Die Alpen von 1729 (Kapitel 1, sechstletzter Gesang).
Bei Haller ist das Schreckhorn ein idealisiertes Zentrum der Alpen, von welchem aus die Ströme Europas nach Norden und nach Süden in die Meere abfliessen. In Wirklichkeit trennt es lediglich die Aare von der Lütschine. Die Wasserscheide zum Mittelmeer liegt fünf Kilometer weiter südwestlich, und jene zum Rhein und zum Inn liegen 40 beziehungsweise 120 Kilometer weiter östlich. Haller stammte aus Bern und bereiste die Alpen im Jahr vor der Verfassung des Gedichts selbst.
Erwähnung bei Kleist und Schiller
Etwa 1803 erscheint das Schreckhorn in einem Brief Heinrich von Kleists aus Thun an seine Schwester.
1804 erscheint das Schreckhorn in Friedrich Schillers Wilhelm Tell (Vers 628), neben der namentlichen Erwähnung von Jungfrau, Glärnisch sowie dem Haggenspitz, einem Nebengipfel des Kleinen Mythen. Allerdings war Schiller nie in der Schweiz, und so ist fraglich, ob er vom Schreckhorn mehr kannte als bloss den Namen.
Kartografie
1755 erscheint es in dem Panorama der Schneeberge des Jacques-Barthélemy Micheli du Crest. Es ist dort neben Pilatus und Wetterhorn der einzige Gipfel, der zutreffend beschriftet ist.
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How about this for a beautiful butterfly from Bhutan? The Panther (Neurosigma siva). It was just photographed by our local guide & is one our groups should be able to see this time next year when we plan to run our two postponed tours.
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Day 6, Via ferrata SOSAT. For the last day we went with a local guide on a via ferrata called Sentiero SOSAT.
Dagur 6, Via ferrata SOSAT. Síðasta daginn gengum við og klifum via ferrata (leið með föstum tryggingum) í fylgd með fjallaleiðsögumanni. Við lögðum upp frá Passo di Groste og gengum að Rifugio Tuckett þar sem ævintýrið hófst!
While in Pakistan, I wanted to visit a truck repair yard to see them painting the colourful intricate designs on the vehicles. I researched one on the outskirts of Peshawar, and the local guide knew its location. And tour leader, Bernd Seiler is always happy to detour from the itinerary if he thinks it might result in good pictures.
We arrived, everyone was extremely welcoming, the mechanics, the truck artists and the racing pigeon fanciers too in their shacks above the buildings - reached by rickety ladders.
If the opportunity arises, I’d like to go back and give them copies of the photos.
Peshawar, Pakistan December 2021.
I walked down to The Lagoon on our first morning hoping for a sunrise but it was still cloudy after the previous day's rain. But it did get better!
I spent 8 days on Lord Howe Island as part of a fundraising challenge for the Climate Council of Australia along with 10 others. We were joined by Prof Lesley Hughes of the CCA and local guide and expert, Ian Hutton OAM. It is a fantastic place, UNESCO World Heritage listed, and I would recommend to anyone to visit.