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2170 – Skiing and Snowboarding on Mount Athos
On this website from Frozen Ambrosia I found this footage of seven Greek guys, who skied down the Holy Mountain (filmed on February 17/18 2017). This is the Facebook footage of the ski trip (thanks Japetus) and some stills from … Continue reading
1807 – A suffocating medieval climb to the top of the Holy Mountain
Mount Athos that passeth the clouds. “The Voiage and Travaile of Sir John Mandeville”, knight of St. Albans was a very popular travel book in the fourteenth century. The real identity of the author, Sir John Mandeville, is still unclear. … Continue reading
1795 – update online Athos map
With the help of the new Athos map – as mentioned below in post 1794 – I updated the online Athos-map on Community Walk (also see Links in the right column of this blog). Wim Voogd, 21-02
1782 – Twenty monasteries in seven days : Day 2, The Top
This is the second episode of seven of the Athos trip done by Goulven Le Goff and his brother Ivonig from Rennes, France made in May 2015. They visited all 20 monasteries in one week and stayed overnight at the … Continue reading
1722 – Satellites and ISS above Mount Athos
Two horizontal trails show ISS, as well as several other smaller vertical satellites trails, passing above Mount Athos in Greece/ Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/travel_news/article-3085110/Photographer-captures-stunning-images-International-Space-Station-Mount-Athos.html#ixzz3aUYlvSgh Herman Voogd
1713 – Athos book from Poland 1908
On Europeana I found this complete book by X. Marcin Czerminski T. J. called Na górze Athos wśród mniszej republiki (The monastic republic of Mount Athos) in Polish. Here are some interesting photographs: This is again a photo of the … Continue reading
1657 – Fresh snow on the top
2nd january 2015 filmed from the Mikra Agia Anna.
1602 – A cloud at the top of the mountain
A short nicely filmed video about a 3 days visit on Athos and climbing to the top after spending the night at Panagia at 1500 meters. Unfortunately the next morning the summit was covered in a cloud but they did … Continue reading
1500 – Pilgrims on the top of Mount Athos
More pilgrims on the top: here, here and here hv
