The view from the top of the eiffle tower is seen as amazing, however, it is nothing like the view we had on a beautiful clear day the day we ascended to the point of mount blanc shown in the picture...the highest mountain in the alps and in europe which rises to 4,810 m ... the cable car took us up to that point about 3800 m and while we were still 1000 m from the top it was truly amazing.. manmade has nothing on mother nature....at the top of the world i decided i did not have the mountain climbers spirit as i felt no desire to climb higher ... even though about 20 000 a year climb to the summit... it looked so hard, however, the people who do climb it are seen more as mountaineer-tourists than serious climbers as apparently it is easy... People screamed when the cable car lurched... so i am not sure what the serious climbers would think of us valley dwellers...
Saturday, October 17, 2009
mountaineer-tourists
The view from the top of the eiffle tower is seen as amazing, however, it is nothing like the view we had on a beautiful clear day the day we ascended to the point of mount blanc shown in the picture...the highest mountain in the alps and in europe which rises to 4,810 m ... the cable car took us up to that point about 3800 m and while we were still 1000 m from the top it was truly amazing.. manmade has nothing on mother nature....at the top of the world i decided i did not have the mountain climbers spirit as i felt no desire to climb higher ... even though about 20 000 a year climb to the summit... it looked so hard, however, the people who do climb it are seen more as mountaineer-tourists than serious climbers as apparently it is easy... People screamed when the cable car lurched... so i am not sure what the serious climbers would think of us valley dwellers...
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Reminds me of my rustic chalet in Kimberley, "The Bavarian City of The Rockies."©
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely beautiful. I agree that mother nature's creation beats anything manmade.
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