“The heart of Austria!”, my cousin exclaimed as we stood on the far side of Pasterze Glacier on the Carinthian side of the border between Carinthia and Tyrol, deep in the Austrian Alps. High in that uninviting world of ice and rock four climbers are slowly making their way up a 45 degree ridge-line to […]
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In the deep alps of Austria, lies her heart, the peak of Großglockner, Austria’s highest mountain. As mountains go it might be dwarfed on paper by 58 higher peaks scattered throughout the alps but in absolute prominence relative to the surrounding terrain it stands only second to France’s Mount Blanc. In the heatwave of a […]
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There is a defining moment when the natural twilight over the land begins to dim and the lights of civilization briefly reach a balance. The timing of that moment can not be determined in advance. It depends on the way the daylight is drawn away in cloud and sky and haze and the waking of […]
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I’d been looking for a sunset in the western evening sky when a jagged crack of orange appeared. We watched as that blaze of zigzagging orange grew and grew and then shrank away into the grey it first emerged from. Oh well, not tonight I thought and put the camera away. Twenty minutes later after […]
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Ben Bulben loomed, first small in the distance and now larger as we neared. Grey clouds shrouded the landscape and rain fell like folded curtains across the mountain. Having only ever seen Ben Bulben from a distance it was time to get a little closer. We drove up green shrouded country lanes, closer, higher. Then […]
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