Hi Everybody!! Please come in, but watch Your Step!!
I thought we would start out on a High Point for our Journey Tonight! We are going to the Swiss Alps! Hold on!
Warning: You will see some Extreme Mountain Men doing some Extreme Human Nature in Extreme Mother Nature in the following video line up (short vids).
Watch at Your Own Risk to have your mind blown away!
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Now You Are Ready to Climb the Eiger!
Feature Presentation: John Harlin III
http://www.johnharlin.net/JohnHarlin.net/Harlin_Bio.html
John Harlin III is the son of famed mountaineer John Harlin, who founded the International School of Mountaineering in Leysin, Switzerland. Harlin died while attempting the Eiger North Face in 1966. Harlin III is an accomplished climber and writer, and the editor-in-chief of the American Alpine Club’sAmerican Alpine Journal.http://www.rockandice.com/news/1607-john-harlin-complete-circumnavigation-of-swiss-border
Today, on the airy summit of Mont Dolent, John Harlin III closed the final chapter on his quest to travel the entire border of Switzerland.
Harlin’s journey was self-supported, employing a kayak, mountain bike, and his own two feet (plus arms) to travel the 1,858 kilometer (1,150 miles) of diverse terrain. Roughly 800 kilometers were covered by bike and kayak, leaving the remaining distance of 1,000 plus kilometers for trekking, scrambling and technical climbing.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Harlin
John Harlin
John Elvis Harlin II (June 30, 1935–March 22, 1966) was an American mountaineer and US Air Force pilot who was killed while making an ascent of the north face of the Eiger. Harlin graduated from Sequoia High School and Stanford University, and after establishing himself as a top-rank mountaineer with the first American ascent of the Eiger North Face's Original Route in 1962 and the American Direct on the Dru, he conceived of climbing the Eiger by the direttissima (Italian for "most direct") route. Two thousand feet from the summit his rope broke and he fell to his death. The Scottish mountaineer Dougal Haston, climbing with Harlin, successfully reached the summit with a German party following the same route, which was named the "Harlin route" in his honor. The story of the climb was recounted in the book Direttissima: The Eiger Assault by British author (and ground team member) Peter Gillman and Dougal Haston.
Harlin's son, John Harlin III, who was nine at the time of his father's death, is also a mountaineer and editor-in-chief of the American Alpine Club's American Alpine Journal. Harlin III, himself an accomplished climber and author of five books, recently climbed the Eiger by the "original" route. He has written a book about his experience entitled The Eiger Obsession. A film of the son's climb to exorcise the ghosts left by his father's death came out in May 2007: The Alps by Steve Judson and his Academy Award-nominated film team, is an Imax movie containing footage of the north face of the Eiger as well as other Alpine peaks.
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Harlin hiked, climbed, paddled and biked around the Swiss border Photographer: Outside Magazine
http://www.outsideonline.com/outdoor-adventure/exploration/8-John-Harlin-III.html
While John Harlin III was living in Switzerland as a boy, his father fell to his death opening a new route on the north face of the 13,025-foot Eiger, a story recounted most recently in the 2007 Imax film The Alps. Last summer, at 56, Harlin, the editor of The American Alpine Journal, safely completed his own Swiss epic: a hike, climb, paddle, and bike around the Alpine kingdom’s serrated border. The result was a wild 1,200-mile adventure, the second of its kind, in one of the most well-traveled countries in Europe. It took 105 days, 688,000 vertical feet of elevation change, and two broken feet to complete.
http://www.johnharlin.net/JohnHarlin.net/Harlin_Bio.html
My early years were spent in the hills of Germany and the mountains of Switzerland, where my father founded the International School of Mountaineering and my mother taught biology at the Leysin American School. After Dad’s death in 1966, the family moved to the U.S., where my mother became a botany professor.
During my teenage years I spent as much time as possible in the wilderness, including several month-long hiking and kayaking trips to the North Slope of Alaska. Following my graduation from the University of California at Santa Barbara with a degree in Environmental Biology, I married my college sweetheart, Adele Hammond, and explored mountain ranges throughout North and South America. During that time I wrote a three-volume, 1,200-page series of guidebooks, The Climber’s Guide to North America. I also worked as a climbing guide in Colorado and launched a backcountry guiding business, Ski-Mountaineering Unlimited.
Backpacker, Summit, American Alpine Journal
In 1987 I took on the first of several editorial positions atBackpacker magazine and later became a guest host on their PBS program, Anyplace Wild. I also edited Summit: The Mountain Journal for five years as well as the quarterly magazine Elements, from the Timberland Company, and a book, Lost Lhasa: Heinrich Harrer’s Tibet. For five years I chaired Polartec’s annual grants to adventure, and for a few years longer I chaired the American Alpine Club’s mountain literature award; I also served as a judge at the Telluride, Banff, and Graz mountain film festivals.
Currently I’m the editor of the American Alpine Journal(published by the American Alpine Club since 1929) and a contributing editor to Backpacker magazine.
The Alps & The Eiger Obsession
Forty years after Dad fell 1,000 meters down the Eiger, I finally climbed its north face myself. MacGillivray-Freeman Films made an IMAX movie, The Alps, of the ascent; the film also featured Adele and our then-nine-year-old daughter, Siena, as we explored various regions in Switzerland, including Ticino. Several interviews and behind-the-scenes videos and info can be seen atwww.AlpsFilm.com.
Thanks John Harlin for sharing your story. Very exciting.The Complete video (45 min) is here on the page after the Photostudy
Storm over Neuchatel, Switzerland. Studio Lupica
Tonight's Photostudy:
Next, The Great Photography of Charles Lupica. Enjoy:
Visit the album of these fine photos at:
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Of all the Mountain Men I saw in this Search, I like Charles Lupica the best as he is doing the most low risk adventure on this page!!
Charles shared these fantastic Images on Google+ Album (link above). I have reshared them here on the blog, so you can see his work. I encourage you to look him up on Google+.
Creux du Van , Canto de Neuchâtel, Suisse. © Charles Lupica Tous droits réservé.
Chateau de Gruyere on a winter's night. Gruyere, Switzerland. © Charles...
Wengen Switzerland in the forground with Lauterbrunen and Staubachfall in the middle ground and Jungfrau in the background
Early morning sun rising above the Schwartzsee, near Fribourg Switzerland.
Sunrise on Lake Sanetsch, Swiss Alps near Gstaad. © Charles Lupica. All rights reserved.
Chateau de Chillon on the banks of Lac Léman (lake Geneva) Switzerland. Charles Lupica
Google+ Profile for Charles:
Works at Studio Lupica
Attended University of Florida
Lives in Neuchatel, Switzerland
About MeProfessional fine art, stock image, and independent photographer living and working in and around Neuchâtel Switzerland. You can see some of the images from my book at http://studiolupica.
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Thank You Charles Lupica for sharing this fine place
Thank You All the daredevils flying in the Air!
Thank You John Harlin for this great film! (Feature Presentation)
The Alps
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I hope you enjoyed this Alps Adventure!
Note to my Grandchildren: Please do not grow up to do anything on this page!
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.....this is brendasue signing off from Rainbow Creek.
See You next time!
Image credit
http://www.tourist-destinations.com/2012/01/swiss-alps.html
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Hi Brendasue,
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Hi Pravir!!! Happy you enjoyed it!
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