Trou de Fer - is one of the most beautiful as well as the hardest canyons in the world. The Czecho-slovak expedition managed its first traverse in this year. With the assessment of the difficulty AB0, Trou de Fer is more valued in the canyon traversing than Mount Everest in mountaineering. We have tried to capture and film something, what has not been properly documented until today. It seems we have have been succesful...  [viac]

We undertook the journey across the Himalayas to Ladakh on bikes.  700 kilometres through different saddlebacks, including Kanzum La 4,551m, Baralacha La 4,892 m, Lachulung La 5,065 m, Polo Kongka La 4,800 m, Namshang La 4,800 m and Khardung La 5,600m. We crossed impressive valleys like Kinnaur, Spiti, Lahaul, Tso Moriri and the Indus Valley. We mostly used well-maintained military mountain roads close to the Tibetan border, guarded by the Chinese. We had to arrange special permits, but it was really worth it.  

Roads cut deeply into rocky cliffs were fortunately car-free. The asphalt on some sections was even better than at home.  Most impressive were the small side valleys with Buddhist monasteries and traditions of life. [viac]

They thought that there would be little to surprise them on the wild water... But the wild Himalayan Karnali river changed everything. The wilderness had prepared an unforgettable adventure for the Slovak rafters.  

Slovak rafters conquered the wild Nepalese Karnali river. In just one week, they cleared a 200-kilometre-long, unpopulated canyon! [viac]

Our decision to make another expedition to the northern side of the Churi-tepui that we had already visited in January of this same year, was triggered mainly to the threat that a foreign group of speleologist that seemed to work as some "paparazzi" or  "wheel suckers", as we term those cyclist that lean to the rear of the leaders to save the energy. Nevertheless and due to recent letters that show that they where not completely guilty of this strange behavior; these foreign speleologist  of high rank that came to explore a cave in the place we had been working continuously in the last five years and thus, where initially considered by us as some kind of speleological piracy at least.  

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"From SK Magazine"
Pavol Barabáš is the man behind a wide range of mountain and adventure films involving people in extreme conditions. He has filmed in remote wildernesses, deep caves far from civilisation and on raging rivers and ice peaks. His films radiate love and respect for nature, an enormous mental power and moral awareness. He has been awarded more than 190 national and international awards. The basis for his choice of themes and journeys is his own imagination and the achievements his friends that are worth recording. While people penetrate various mysterious corners of the world in his film shoots, he spends much of his time hidden in a studio editing or writing scenes for the films he carries in his head. [viac]

The first purely Slovak walking expedition to the North Pole, led by the polar explorer Peter Valušiak, reached the place where every direction always shows south. With this two-week journey on the thin ice of Antarctica, a group of explorers recalled the legendary and historically first autonomous crossing from Russia to Canada through the North Pole, in 118 days, which Peter made ten years ago as a member of a Russian-Slovak expedition. [viac]

“Crystal-pure air hangs over one’s head and the ever-present green steppe is endless. At night, millions of stars twinkle in the dark. The natives consider distances to be relative, as their route to the nearest town will be the same tomorrow as it is today. The countryside forces you to wander around, offering some kind of liberty that I’ve never experienced anywhere else in the world. You follow this calling of the soul from yurt to yurt, trying to understand the life of this nomadic nation that once governed the world’s largest empire.” [viac]