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EVEN THE S..T IS NOT WHAT IT USED TO BE...

12. 05. 2012, comments: 1, views 3274x

I visited a friend of mine living in the highwayman's cottage. I haven't seen him for ages. The fire from the kerosene lamp illuminated our glasses filled with red wine and created a wonderful play of lights and shadows that awoke old stories. We commemorated our old common trips to the dark valleys, spring skiing at Svistak, evening joggings to Prielom... . . At midnight our conversation turned into much more serious themes: from windy calamities and visions of the new Tatras to the changes in human behaviors. more

1979 - Zbojnícka chata - Robber's cottage

09. 05. 2012, comments: 2, views 1042x

At the end of June 1979, I came again to Robber's Cottage to work as a mountaineering porter. At that time, the atmosphere in the entire area of the High Tatra Mountains was very subdued. The reason for this was the crash t the edge of the Mlynicka valley of a rescue helicopter that was on its way to help a German tourist. Five members of the mountain rescue service died. The accident was the subject of every discussion. It was a really mournful time for all of us. more

It's blessing when one knows where he belongs

27. 10. 2010, comments: 1, views 529x

As late as after longer wandering throughout the world, one realizes the most what values one has at home. Beautiful forests, pure mountain springs, rocky mountains inwrought with perfect tourist markings are not such a certainty in the third world. I always considered mountains to be my asylum. A place to which I always like to return. Much later I realized that what that attracted me to them was actually the people who live in them. They affect your perception of the mountain world that you enter. If respect is deep-rooted in traditions, then you also perceive the mountains through them...

First HD projections from digital media in Slovak cinemas

14. 10. 2010, comments: 0, views 1214x

SPI (www.spi-film.eu, www.spi-film.sk) is the first distributor in Slovakia introducing HD projections from digital media. Today, October 23rd, two documentaries by Pavol Barabas are released: Unknown Antarctica and Bhutan. These films are exclusively projected in two cinemas in Slovakia, which provide this technology, namely Palace Cinemas in Bratislava shopping mall Aupark and Europe Cinemas in Banska Bystrica. more

First encounter with a lynx

22. 03. 2010, comments: 0, views 550x

My father Jaro has two scars on the back of his neck. Once, when I was still a little boy, I asked him what happened to him and he told me this short story:

"In 1953, I was sent to Eastern Slovakia to help with the construction of the Vihorlat factory. Apart from providing machinery and other equipment for the factory premises, we also had to provide building material, especially wood. So we went to the adjacent forests near to the village of RUININA which bordered with the Soviet Union. We, a ranger and I, were accompanied by border guards. I carried a stick to push away low branches when struggling through the vegetation. At one point, I felt a blow, the stick flew out of my hands and I felt pain at the back of my neck... more

Is the spiritual growth a brake for economy?

30. 04. 2009, comments: 4, views 588x

In the eternal universe is our planet with all its unique systems that enable life controlled with not understandable energies which are life-giving, resurgent and enriching. The beauties of our Earth are for many of us a source of power, music chorus of the Nature, giving us faith in something wonderful and pleasant. It has the capability to listen to us, so that we realize that we pay a too high price for what we call technological progress. more

Unforgotten story

18. 02. 2008, comments: 0, views 4501x

The life of the mountains is affected by people. Their stories are noted down in each valley, saddleback or hill. One needs to learn to read from this mountain book, to be able to make connections, to remember messages ... Rudo Žuffa from the Roháče Mountain Rescue Service called me to a commemorative crossing from the Chocholowska valley to Zverovka, through Lúčna. The event is annually supported by Polish and Slovak rescuers who take the journey dressed in the same clothes as in an old story from the end of the Second World War that I was told by Rudo: more

Return from the Carstensz pyramid

11. 02. 2007, comments: 0, views 462x

When we descended the highest peak of New Guinea after a march taking several hours through the undamaged jungle, we were a bit shocked. In front of us we saw images looking like Mars. A giant surface of a gold and copper mine occupying several kilometers. It is believed to be the biggest on our planet. Huge cableways, railways and the most modern giant dredgers on Earth dig in the precious ecosystem of the mountain primeval forest full of peculiar animals. more

Keby mala naša Zem niekoľko metrov v priemere

08. 09. 2006, comments: 0, views 538x

Skúste si predstaviť, že by naša Zem mala priemer iba niekoľko metrov a vznášala by sa niekde nad rozkvitnutou lúkou. Ľudia, ktorí by ju objavili, by ju prehlásili za najväčší zázrak. Obchádzali by ju s úctou dookola a divili by sa veľkým vodným plocham, malinkým jazierkam i riekam, ktoré do nich tečú z bielych hôr. Tiež by boli udivení z tenkej vrstvy plynu a vode zavesenej v ňom, ktorá ako tajomný závoj sem tam poodhalí krásy Zeme. Obdivovali by všetky tvory pohybujúce sa na súši i vo vode v dokonalej harmónii. Ľudia by zem prehlásili za posvätnú... more

Are we the most arrogant species?

15. 08. 2006, comments: 0, views 476x

It seems like we don’t want or can’t understand our mother Earth. I am surprised by the unbelievable arrogance of the Homo sapience to everything alive. If I look at our Earth from distance our species appears to me as an uncontrollable virus attacking the Earth in the same way as our mind is attacked by conflict values and ideas... Unwillingly the statement of the writer John Fowles comes into my mind and I am just afraid to agree with him: more