Between the cliffs
Defying gravity and nature.
β§ We've been climbing for hours but we've reached the end ! And what an end, after only seeing rocks and beat up by the tough altitude sun. Finally some trees and their welcome shade; a forest of pines to be exact. There's a cute but strong stream winding down through the forest, but hey what's this ? There's a cool suspended bridge over it !
β§ While we are on a quite flat portion of the trail, I'm taking the opportunity to turn back and take a shot at the distance we have covered. A few hundred of meters since the footbrige allowing to cross the riff, and the start of the Via-ferrata. We are at the middle of the two massive cliffs surounding us and luckly, a shadowy area that is most welcomed after the previous part that was under a hard-hitting sun. I can even see the rope-bridge we took to join the other cliff side and that cross over the river that lines the bottom of that rift we are in.
β§ It would be crazy hard to climb this, near-vertical chunk of rock. Fortunately we are doing a Via-ferrata, and convenient poles of steel have been incrusted in the cliff, forming a ladder. Lil'brother is having a go at it, wearing the perfectly adequate equipment: hiking shoes, blue helmet, sunglasses, pant and obvisouly his climbing harness.
β§ I hope you don't have vertigo ! One hand holding the metalic bar that keep me hooked to the cliff, the other for the camera and looking straight down ! A few dozen of meter down there the bottom of the riff, a river and some rocks. But don't hope the river would catch an accidental fall, it's rather this kind of mountainous shallow stream that have way less water at this period.
β§ It would be crazy hard to climb this, near-vertical chunk of rock. Fortunately we are doing a Via-ferrata, and convenient poles of steel have been incrusted in the cliff, forming a ladder. Lil'brother is having a go at it, wearing the perfectly adequate equipment: hiking shoes, blue helmet, sunglasses, pant and obvisouly his climbing harness.
β§ While we are on a quite flat portion of the trail, I'm taking the opportunity to turn back and take a shot at the distance we have covered. A few hundred of meters since the footbrige allowing to cross the riff, and the start of the Via-ferrata. We are at the middle of the two massive cliffs surounding us and luckly, a shadowy area that is most welcomed after the previous part that was under a hard-hitting sun. I can even see the rope-bridge we took to join the other cliff side and that cross over the river that lines the bottom of that rift we are in.
β§ I hope you don't have vertigo ! One hand holding the metalic bar that keep me hooked to the cliff, the other for the camera and looking straight down ! A few dozen of meter down there the bottom of the riff, a river and some rocks. But don't hope the river would catch an accidental fall, it's rather this kind of mountainous shallow stream that have way less water at this period.
β§ We've been climbing for hours but we've reached the end ! And what an end, after only seeing rocks and beat up by the tough altitude sun. Finally some trees and their welcome shade; a forest of pines to be exact. There's a cute but strong stream winding down through the forest, but hey what's this ? There's a cool suspended bridge over it !