| Relocation of Slovenian bears
24.08.2006
Last night (on Tuesday), the last (fifth) bear from Slovenia was successfully relocated to the French Pyrenees. The bears were relocated based on the agreement signed last year by the Slovenian Minister of the Environment and Spatial Planning Janez Podobnik and the French Minister for Ecology and Su... |
| Closed path
17.08.2006
The path across Kriška stena will be closed from 18.8. to 20.8.2006 due to the danger of falling rocks. The rocks will be removed and some safeguards repaired.... |
| Consequences of global warming in the Alps
12.08.2006
Zürich - Alpine glaciers lost ten percent of their volume in the hot summer of 2003, claim researchers from the University of Zurich; today only between half and a third of the volume from the 1850s remains. Further atmospheric warming by three degrees Celsius could cause 80 percent of the glacial i... |
| Kredarica
9.08.2006
110 years of the highest Slovenian mountain hut. ... |
| Accident in the mountains
9.08.2006
Yesterday, 8.8.2006, during the descent along the Tominšek Route from Kredarica to Vrata, a 70-year-old mountaineer from Dovje slipped. He fell 30 meters deep and was so severely injured that he died from the injuries. The Tominšek Route was opened for mountaineers a few days ago. Before that, it wa... |
| Interesting fact - Mary of the Snow
5.08.2006
The feast of Mary of the Snow has justified its name, as 10 cm of snow fell on the highest chapel in Slovenia. Mass on Kredarica will be today, Saturday 5.8.2006, at 11 o'clock. ... |
| Interesting fact, Golovec hill
4.08.2006
The name comes from the bald patches that were characteristic of this hill until around 1890.At that time, systematic afforestation began under the leadership of the Carniola Agricultural Society and the City Municipality of Ljubljana. There was also a small castle on Golovec, owned by the Wester ... |
| Job Interviews on Mount Fuji
2.08.2006
Tokyo One of the leading Japanese internet companies will verify in a very unusual way whether candidates for a job in their company truly have enough courage to overcome obstacles. They will organize interviews at the summit of the 3,776-meter-high Mount Fuji.Fifty candidates will head to the summ... |
| Grintovec Mountain Run 2006
31.07.2006
When the organizers of the Grintovec race learned that Jonathan Wyatt would participate in this year's event, they hoped for a new record. Justifiably! The 33-year-old from New Zealand is a five-time world champion and record holder of numerous mountain runs. Since this year's extreme race with 1,95... |