ONWARDS TRAVELS
UPWARDS TRAVELS
TRAVEL NOTES
TRAVELS ON THE WEB
TRAVELLERS
ASIA OVERLAND 2002

If I had a first dream in my life, it's been going up. But going up was not enough: I had to go up higher and higher, still before going away as far as possible. I dream I go up since I've learned to dream and my last dream is climbing an 8,000 meters peak (but the truth, now, is that I'd be satisfied by climbing once in my life at least a "seven thousand" one...).

These pages are dedicated to my travels at high altitude, or at least to those one which I have some pics of. Twelve out of these pictures have been selected by LEM Art Group for publishing a 2004 Calendar on mountains.

CLIMBINGS ON ALPS OVER 4000
OTHER PEAKS OF THE ALPS

 

TRAVELLING UPWARDS
At 4,000 meters a.s.l. the air pressure is half than at sea level. At 8,000 meters it falls down up to one third. Climbers say that between 7,800 and 8,000 meters the so called "death zone" begins...
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