Photo album from my last trip to Tatra National Park
in August 1998
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On the way to a tourist hostel
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"Eye of sea" pond and a mountain hostel (at the center of the picture)
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Walking beside the pond - notice a mountain's reflection in the water
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In front of the "Black pond" . Can you see snow high in the mountain ?
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A plate of frozen snow (it was summer!) at the foot of
the Rysy mountain (so big that a man could go under it)
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"Black Pond" (76 metres deep) and "Eye of sea" (about 50 metres deep)
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A place where an avalanche (of snow or stones) often starts
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Majestic shapes of a mountain
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Me, resting after four hours of climbing.
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This picture was taken from the top of Rysy, the highest mountain in Poland
(2499 metres above sea level). Can you see me waving a hand ?
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Slovakian part of Tatra mountains viewed from Rysy
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The route out of the mountain hostel to the summit (marked as dashed red line)
The difference in level of the starting and the final point is 1100 m and it takes 4 hours to go
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General view of Tatra
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Copyright (c) 1998 by
Adam