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Kiss of God 5.416 meters

They say those who know the mountain, to cross the passage of Thorung The, must arrive before nine o'clock. Then he unleashed a wild wind so there is no way through it without putting human lives at risk. That's why the latest escalation, the final, starts at three o'clock.

byContributors

14 April, 2013

The ascent of Jebel Toubkal

The legendary Atlas runs from Tunisia due west to Agadir and separates the fertile lands of the largest northern and scorching desert there. Sahara are the prelude. These mountains are oblique border between green and yellow.

byNacho Melero

10 August, 2012

Smell of feet on the slopes of K-2

And there, one of the highlights of my traveling life more intense, rises between the red and black clouds the great pyramid of K2. A childhood dream fulfilled in a picture from a story about Kipling

byJuan Ramon Morales

14 March, 2012

Kirgizstan: the persecution of the wolf from the mountains

Move to step through the valley of Karkara, border between Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan today, a limit imposed by Stalin to the same people. The sky is leaden and the snow is announced in the cold wind hit us back. The horses are impatient and Ari, my guide, with them.

byJuan Ramon Morales

18 February, 2012

Mountains of Pakistan: in the land of infidels

Surrounded by a sea of ??Muslim peoples for centuries, wine, sexual freedom of their women and a very special way of understanding life is a surprise in this region known for its fanaticism and fugitives from legend that until recently have traveled, allegedly, Osama Bin Laden como, Without going any further.

byJuan Ramon Morales

10 November, 2011

Spain

Villarreal de San Carlos: the way of the bandits

Anyone who approaches the National Park Monfragüe, Cáceres, Villarreal will go through San Carlos. This small hamlet is the only town that exists in the interior and the point of departure for most tours. But the village, located in an area that was ancient feud Highwaymen, is much more than just a place of passage.

byContributors

22 February, 2011

Asia
Nature

Ascent to heaven of the Annapurna

One of the most breathtaking of the mountains is his silence. Last night, at daybreak, bladder woke beset by, and ended up sitting, protected by twelve blankets, enjoy nothing and looking at the sky with binoculars little substance that I bought in Pokhara.

byContributors

21 January, 2011

Asia
Nature

Annapurna, the challenge of the mountain

"But where will they go now, if four in the afternoon and at half past six is ??night? Not create problems and sleep today. Morning walk as they please ". The man's face is tanned by the claws of the mountain, and emphasizes its argument point-blank shooting: “Además, is a blizzard ".

byContributors

14 January, 2011

Videoblog

An avalanche on Mount Everest

Clearly, in VOD are in love with the Himalayas. See an avalanche of snow from Everest…

byJavier Brandoli

10 January, 2011

Asia
Nature

Roadmap for the conquest of the Himalayas

Trekking el de los Annapurnas, walking at higher altitudes than can a human being before having to use climbing equipment to keep climbing, is the most wonderful adventure I had in my life.

byContributors

9 January, 2011

Asia
Nature

Trekking in Annapurna: top, where the world ends

Climb the highest levels of the planet and walk around the slopes of the mountains of Nepal is the story of a serial nature reports that give in VOD. A trek made by ordinary people, they barely knew the high mountain, and approached the limit of his strength and dreams.

byContributors

17 December, 2010

Naples 1944: Magistral chronicle of a surreal city	9,75/10
"The dead and the journalist": "inevitable" death	9,75/10
"The innocent anthropologist": Africa, heartily	9,75/10
Tierra de Brujas: When it doesn't rain do the blue veins dry up??	9,70/10
Of the ruins of the empires: Asia's adjustment with European colonialism	9,45/10
“A possible life”: The scar that leaves the memory	9,40/10
"Quijote in the Congo": They were not giants, It was a river	9,25/10
"Pilgrims of beauty": Italy and Greece Bacanal	9,20/10
"Travel with Charley": Raw portrait of the US 60	9,05/10
Winter notes on summer impressions: Dostoevsky in front of the mirror	8,90/10
The city of God: the guts of Rome	8,75/10
On the road: the “American Dream” of the underworld	8,60/10
Strengthen the foundation: Africa raises its voice	8,15/10
My trip to Africa: Churchill takes his rifle	7,50/10
"Mexico. Memories of a traveler ": The cursed book that clears the country	6,25/10
“Bangkok”: the adventures of a westerner among prostitutes, bars, massages and excesses	5,50/10