Climbing travel tips and stories. Vacations ideas, cruises spa and resorts

 

The Mount Fitz Roy is one of the most majestic and ominous of mountain ranges in the world. The peak is located in the Glaciers National Park, Andes Mountains on the border with Chile. It’s one of the best places in South America for trekking and climbing. The Fitz Roy Mount is a popular for those tourists who are interested in risky activities. 

  It is composed by volcanic rocks as a result of enormous intrusion processes produced around 12 million years ago. The mount Fitz Roy is height of 3.405 meters above sea level, the third largest in the world and one of the biggest challenges for climbers all over the world. Mount Fitz Roy was first climbed in 1952 by the two French who reached the top on 2nd February. Glaciers National Park has been listed in the World Heritage List by UNESCO in 1981.  
 When you visit the area of Glaciers National Park, don’t miss the Fitz Roy massif, Cerro Torre group and the gate of the Patagonian Ice Field, includes a spectacular glacier walk on the Cerro Torre glacier.  
  
     

Location: Stranja Mountain area, the town of Berkovitsa – at the northern foothill of the Mountain. It is at a distance of 89 km to the north of Sofia, Bulgaria.  Mt.Kom(2016) in the immediate proximity to the border with Serbia, and the Black Sea Cape Emine – the eastern end of the mountain and the country.
The middle of the route is around the Uzana Chalet. The total length of the gorge is 156 km. The Kom – Emine route is about 700 km long, 250 km of which run in the central Balkan Mountain (80 km across the Central Balkan Mountain National Park). The hiking tour takes normally between 20-25 days under summer ,1 month under winter conditions.

Kom- Emine is an arena of marathon, the official record for the time being 5 days and 17 hours. It is the completing part of the European Transitional Pedestrian Route- Emine. All the normal daily hiking tracks facility. Bathing in the Black Sea is mandatory, regardless of the season and the meteorological conditions.

If you enjoy Caribbean dive vacations then Cayman Brac may be the place for you. Cayman Brac is 86 miles northeast of Grand Cayman – the main island of Cayman Islands, 480 miles from Miami and 175 miles northeast of Jamaica. The island offers lots of topside opportunities as well, it is a great diving destination with interesting above-water outdoor activities, such as hiking and rock climbing as well as great shore and boat diving. Cayman Brac, with its awe-inspiring bluff and laid-back lifestyle, is the perfect place to get away.

Rock climbing was developed beginning in 1992 (when two climbers from Colorado  discovered the Bluff cliffs on the north end of the island) and the island is now known as a world-class climbing destination. One must be somewhat experienced to climb here as the terrain is steep, many times over-vertical. The island offers some of the most spectacular scenery in the Caribbean. Today climbers come from all over the world to sample superb limestone climbing on Cayman Brac. Also over 75 climbs exist on Brac and climbers even maintain a home here.

The clear calm waters that surround the 12 mile island host a pristine reef which offers great visibility and a profusion of fish life. Snorkelers and divers can enjoy the reefs from shore, or from one of the boats operated by the diving operators serving the island. Wall dives start quite deep on the island (about 70-100 ft) and provide quite a different dive experience. In addition to stunning corals and sponges divers can expect to see a variety of marine creatures ranging from squid, turtles, lobsters and rays to occasional sharks and dolphins.

Today Kilimanjaro is an exotic destination, which is threatened by degradation from climate change. Every year travel industry sends about 30, 000 climbers toward Kilimanjaro’s summit.

To reach the great summit, there’re six routes established, some of them however demanding mountaineering routes. The most difficult and also short used route is the Marangu, the others routes take a little longer to reach the summit.

While climbing in the moors there’re weird plans such as olonnade-like, eight-foot lobelias and clusters of tree-size senecio kilimanjari, or giant groundsels, with clumps of cabbage-shaped leaf clusters atop withered-looking trunks.

The population of Kilimanjaro is called Chagga — which are the people who can carry up to 50 pounds on their head. WOW. Kilimanjaro has two main climbing seasons: January through February and mid-June through mid-October, typically the most stable weather periods. Kilimanjaro is the tallest mountain rise in the world, and includes the highest peak in Africa at 5,895 meters providing a dramatic view from the surrounding plains.