Step by step to happiness in the Alps: new illustrated book with mountain tips published
Created: 08/03/2022, 17:00
This is what the cover of the new book looks like.
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The new illustrated book by the well-known team of authors from the "Alpine Hütten 3" district presents significant places and enjoyable hikes.
Bad Tölz
– The Tölz-based journalist and author Sandra Freudenberg and the photographer Bernd Ritschel, who lives in Kochel am See, together with Frank Eberhard, who lives in the Allgäu, have created the illustrated book “Alpine Hütten 3”, which has now been published by the renowned National Geographic publishing house.
The well-known team of authors has thus presented a richly illustrated work in which they present numerous scenically impressive, alpine-historically and culturally significant places and "longing paths in the mountains".
19 enjoyable, often multi-day circular hikes, high-altitude trails and crossings are portrayed and set in pictures, which lead from the local Bavarian foothills via the Ammergau and Allgäu Alps to the central Alps of the Hohe Tauern, Zillertal and Ötztal Alps, from the Dolomites and Swiss Bernina and Valais to the Mont Blanc massif.
19 enjoyable and often multi-day circular hikes, high-altitude trails
Sandra Freudenberg tells how you can find “step by step to happiness in the Alps” through stillness and deceleration.
She has not written any mountaineering performance reports, but with a lot of respect and humility for the size, beauty and grandeur of the mountains, she devotes herself more to the personal feelings of the people who are allowed to be out and about in this wonderful world, which is illustrated with wonderfully atmospheric photos.
She is also concerned with the huts, which often appear in spectacular locations like cloud houses glued to the steep rock.
And it is dedicated to those people who look after their guests there in the summer months without the amenities of life in the valley.
She regularly sprinkles thoughts and wisdom from Hildegard von Bingen, Friedrich Schiller, Friedrich Nietzsche and other great minds into her text.
Even if the book does not deal with summit ascents, but "only" paths from hut to hut: Many tours are "not difficult" in the actual sense (such as the Karwendel hike from the Plumsjochhaus to the Tölzer Hütte), but they require a high level of fitness simply because of their length Expectations.
Others require experienced, sure-footed, well-equipped and level-headed alpinists in view of the complicated rocky terrain with the risk of falling and glacier crossings.
For each hike, there is “tour and hut information” in bullet points with times, opening times and equipment of the huts as well as equipment tips.
Of course, none of this can relieve the willing hiker and mountaineer of their own responsibility for careful tour planning, including studying maps,
(R Bannier)
To the book
"Alpine Huts 3";
published by National Geographic Buchverlag Munich;
240 pages and approx. 220 illustrations;
ISBN: 9783866908024;
49.99 euros.
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