This little guy is part of a magnificent rock formation at ‘Meteora’ in central Greece. For more, visit tomradenz.com
Tag: mountain
We stick out
Majestic black and white Matterhorn portraits by Nenad Saljic. The Matterhorn, also known as Monte Cervino or Mont Cervin, is a mountain in the Pennine Alps on the border between Switzerland and Italy. Its summit is 4,478 metres high, making it one of the highest peaks in the Alps.
Winter Wonderland
Beautiful landscape photograph of a lone mountain goat looking out onto a mountainous landscape covered in snow captured by Hungarian photographer Akos Major
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We enjoy the snow
Montmorency Falls, Quebec City, Canada
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Hangover
The Timmelsjoch Experience Pass Museum, Brenner Pass, Italy by architect Werner Tscholl / photographed by Alexa Rainer
We’re leaving the mountains behind
photograph by Julio López Saguar
We woke up with a view
Traditional Winter residence in the Alps / holiday greetings to all our followers around the world… :)
We unwind
A ramshackle ski lift perches on the edge of a rock face, 5,000m above sea level. To the left, a ski run snakes into the valley. But where is the snow? “It was the world’s highest ski resort,” explains the British photographer Nick Ballon, “but because of global warming, it is now just bedrock.”
For 18,000 years, Chacaltaya mountain, near Le Paz, Bolivia, was home to a vast glacier all year round. From the 1930s, it also became home to a small, fashionable ski resort, attracting an elite crowd of European alpinists who coveted its high-altitude status and jaw-dropping scenery.
“My father, who is Bolivian, would tell me how in the 1960s he used to travel up here from Le Paz and ski with his friends,” adds Ballon. But over the past 10 years, the glacier has melted away to nothing. And with no glacier, an entire close-knit community lost their livelihoods.
“All that’s left now is a derelict old ski lift. It makes a stunning picture, but when I felt all this bare, flaky, soft rock under my feet, it felt as though a mountain had been destroyed.”
Chacaltaya mountain, near Le Paz, Bolivia. A ramshackle ski lift perches on the edge of a rock face, 5,000m above sea level – once the world’s highest sky resort but due to global warming now merely bedrock / photographed by Nick Ballon
Step by Step
![banaue rice terraces philipines landscape mountain photography nature green The Banaue Rice Terraces (Tagalog: Hagdan-hagdang Palayan ng Banawe) also called Payaw, are 2000-year old terraces that were carved into the mountains of Ifugao in the Philippines by ancestors of the indigenous people. The Rice Terraces are commonly referred to by Filipinos as the "Eighth Wonder of the World". It is commonly thought that the terraces were built with minimal equipment, largely by hand. The terraces are located approximately 1500 meters (5000 ft) above sea level and cover 10,360 square kilometers (about 4000 square miles) of mountainside. They are fed by an ancient irrigation system from the rainforests above the terraces. It is said that if the steps are put end to end it would encircle half the globe. Locals to this day still plant rice and vegetables on the terraces, although more and more younger Ifugaos do not find farming appealing, often opting for the more lucrative hospitality industry generated by the Rice Terraces[citation needed]. The result is the gradual erosion of the characteristic "steps", which need constant reconstruction and care. In 2010 a further problem was drought, with the terraces drying up completely in March of that year. UNESCO world wonder heritage culture](https://hovercraftdoggy.files.wordpress.com/2012/11/banaue-rice-terraces.jpg?w=924 "banaue rice terraces philipines landscape mountain photography nature green The Banaue Rice Terraces (Tagalog: Hagdan-hagdang Palayan ng Banawe) also called Payaw, are 2000-year old terraces that were carved into the mountains of Ifugao in the Philippines by ancestors of the indigenous people. The Rice Terraces are commonly referred to by Filipinos as the \"Eighth Wonder of the World\". It is commonly thought that the terraces were built with minimal equipment, largely by hand. The terraces are located approximately 1500 meters (5000 ft) above sea level and cover 10,360 square kilometers (about 4000 square miles) of mountainside. They are fed by an ancient irrigation system from the rainforests above the terraces. It is said that if the steps are put end to end it would encircle half the globe. Locals to this day still plant rice and vegetables on the terraces, although more and more younger Ifugaos do not find farming appealing, often opting for the more lucrative hospitality industry generated by the Rice Terraces[citation needed]. The result is the gradual erosion of the characteristic \"steps\", which need constant reconstruction and care. In 2010 a further problem was drought, with the terraces drying up completely in March of that year.")
Locals to this day still plant rice and vegetables on the terraces, although more and more younger Ifugaos do not find farming appealing, often opting for the more lucrative hospitality industry generated by the Rice Terraces[citation needed]. The result is the gradual erosion of the characteristic “steps”, which need constant reconstruction and care. In 2010 a further problem was drought, with the terraces drying up completely in March of that year.
The terraces are found in the province of Ifugao and the Ifugao people have been its caretakers. Ifugao culture revolves[6] around rice and the culture displays an elaborate array of rice culture feasts linked with agricultural rites from rice cultivation to rice consumption. Harvest season generally calls for thanksgiving feasts while the concluding harvest rites tungo or tungul (the day of rest) entail a strict taboo of any agricultural work. Partaking of the bayah (rice beer), rice cakes, and betel nut constitutes an indelible practice during the festivities and ritual activities.
A pre-Hispanic indigenous Ifugao village.
The Ifugao people practice traditional farming spending most of their labor at their terraces and forest lands while occasionally tending to root crop cultivation. The Ifugaos have also been known to culture edible shells, fruit trees, and other vegetables which has been exhibited among Ifugaos for generations. The building of the rice terraces, work of blanketing walls with stones and earth which is designed to draw water from a main irrigation canal above the terrace clusters. Indigenous rice terracing technologies have been identified with the Ifugao’s rice terraces such as their knowledge of water irrigation, stonework, earthwork and terrace maintenance. As their source of life and art, the rice terraces have sustained and shaped the lives of the community members. Ifugao previously belong to the Mountain Province as a municipality but on June 18, 1966 in effect of Republic Act No. 4695, Ifugao became an independent province.
We want a little garden
Ben Bulben, in the County of Sligo, Ireland
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