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  • View from the V&A Waterfront up to Table Mountain with a cloud 'tablecloth'
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  • Summer blooms over Chamonix Valley 🇫🇷. Looking out from the Bellevue Plateau (1900m / 6233ft). Even if you are not on the alpine routes, there are several hundred kilometres of trails and hiking routes through glorious alpine meadows past waterfalls and glaciers ... plus the glorious clear mountain air makes it that much more enjoyable.
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  • Mountain style graffiti in Chamonix
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  • Barranco camp (3976m - 13,044ft) on Kilimanjaro. Usually only one more camp before you attempt the walk to the summit is a great acclimatisation point and you get to see some of the unique giant Lobelia flowers and mountain animals scurrying about, as well as a chance to look up at The Breach (for a technical ascent) and the Barranco Wall - where you will go the next morning.
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  • Farmstead high in the mountains on the Kyrgyz / Tajik border - with glorious views down the valley (behind me) to the High Pamirs). Sitting on part of the southern route of the ancient Silk Roads this may seem remote but was very much a part of ancient trading routes.
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  • Sunset over the Shira ridge, seen from the slopes of Kilimanjaro on the Lemosho Trail
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  • Kibo peak on top of Kilimanjaro seen through some of the highest reaches of the surrounding forests. Nearly on the equator, the summit is about 4,900 metres (16,100 ft) from its base, and 5,895 metres (19,341 ft) above sea level
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  • Ridge lines in the fading evening light on Mount Kilimanjaro. Sitting on the Shira Plateau, the old volcano caldera to the east of Kibo. to acclimatise on the way to the Lava Tower and beyond.
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  • Getting ready for the 7 day trek ( Lemosho trail)
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  • Ever popular parapenting over Chamonix Valley
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  • The joy of skiing moguls (on, not with, this time) Looking down the start of the 3500 and Glacier ski runs in Tignes
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  • Part of the glaciers on the southern icefield on Kilimanjaro. According to recent research, the current glaciers began to form in 9700BC but are fast disappearing.
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  • Mountain hut on the back face of the Eiger (3,970m), Jungfrau (4,158m) and Mönch (4,107m) peaks in the Bernese Oberland, Switzerland. Great location for climbers, walkers and mountain enthusiasts from serious to amateur.
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  • Catching some exposure on the Tridentina / Piscadù via ferrata high above Corvara in the Italian Dolomites. This is one of the more popular via ferrata of the Dolomites given some easy access at the start and the glorious backdrop to the moderate difficulty climb on the way up, taking you from Passo Gardena to the Pisciadù mountain hut (2585m).
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  • The impressive Lauterbrunnen valley with many of the clear glacial streams and waterfalls seen from the cog-railway en route up to the car-free mountain village of Wengen (1274m / 4180ft) in Switzerland
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  • Looking up at the Eiger North Face with the White Spider glistening - the snow field made famous by Heinrich Harrer of the same name describing the first successful ascent of the North Face. One of the world's iconic mountain climbing destinations ...and for the movie buffs, made famous by Clint Eastwood in The Eiger Sanction
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  • A glimpse of the top of the Eiger (3,967-metre / 13,015 ft). Looking over from the top of Piz Gloria on the summit of the Schilthorn at 2970m - 9744ft (the mountain hideaway in James Bond OHMSS)
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  • Mountain roads snaking up to the Pas Gardena in the Italian Dolomites
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  • Sugarloaf Mountain, or Pão de Açúcar is a granite monolith that stands 396 m (1,299 ft) above the Guanabara Bay harbor in Rio de Janeiro. Apparently given this name in the 16th century by the Portuguese sugar traders who shipped their sugar in conical moulds very similar in shape. Iconic and well worth the cable car trip to the summit ( pausing to find Jaws from James Bond / Moonraker )
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  • Ait Benhaddou. Between Marrakesh and the Sahara desert, just over the High Atlas mountains is the fascinating and highly photogenic ighrem or fortified trading town, used (and repaired for) a huge range of films, from Game of Thrones, Gladiator and The Mummy to The Living Daylights and The Man Who Would Be King. The Kasbah is now a UNESCO world heritage site and worth exploring up to the fort on the hilltop
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  • Ait-Ben-Haddou's earthen buildings surrounded by high walls, is a traditional pre-Saharan habitat. The houses crowd together within the defensive walls, which are reinforced by corner towers. Just over the Atlas mountains from Marrakecch in Ouarzazate province, is a striking example of the architecture of southern Morocco
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  • Walking in the Tajik-Kyrgyz border region of the High Pamirs and Tian Shan mountains is a magical experience. Fascinating to visit some of the old trading posts along the original Silk Road from Osh to Kashgar. The tents might have been a bit antique but the views are timeless
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  • Daybreak. Morning sunbeams at Montanvers and the Mer de Glace, Chamonix. With the Montenvers railway built in 1908 this is a very accessible glacier from Chamonix below and great place to see both how a glacier works and the impact of climate change.
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  • Hotels overlooking the North Face of the EIger and Jungfrau - scene of many movies
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  • Door to a hut in rural Morocco
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  • Railway to Murren in the Bernese Oberland, Switzerland with the ever-present Bernese bear and views to the dramatic chain of peaks from Breithorn running across to the Eiger and Jungfrau
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  • Looking down to the Aletch glacier from the Jungfraujoch at 3,466 metres (11,371 ft). The largest glacier in the Alps (about 23 km / 14 miles long) is still around 1km thick in parts and if you are lucky, to hike and spend time out under clear night skies.
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  • Cross on top of Cir Spitz Via Ferrata, Italian Dolomites
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  • Joy of being up a rock face in the Dolomites
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  • Part of the original Silk Road through the High Pamirs
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  • Exploring the borders of Kyrgyzstan and Turkmenistan
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  • Via Tridentina
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  • Looking across to the Jungfrau (4,158 m / 13,642 ft) from the railway station at Kleine Sheidegg (2,061m / 6,762ft). An ideal stepping off point for summer walks, hikes, climbing and plenty of winter sport.
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  • Cog railway train to the Kleine Scheidigg station and bottom of the Eiger and Jungfrau massif
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  • Market stall outside the mines of Cerro Rico, Potosi, Bolivia. Potosi is one of the highest cities in the world at 4,090 metres (13,420 ft), the remote mountain behind it was a massive silver mine, discovered in 1545 and at it's peak an estimated 85% of the silver produced in the central Andes came from Cerro Rico. As a result of mining the city of Potosí became one of the largest cities in the New World.
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  • Taxi service on Lake Atitlan in the Guatemalan Highlands and Sierra Madre mountain range. Surrounded by volcanoes it is a dramatic place to visit, described by Aldous Huxley as the “limit of the permissibly picturesque” and “Como with additional embellishments of several immense volcanoes”. Added to which are a number of traditional Mayan villages rich in local traditions - although the 'Drunken Saint' - Maximón - is one of the more strange ones!)
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  • Looking out to the mountain "sculptures" of Kojo-Kelen whilst walking into the High Pamirs along one of the southern routes of the old Silk Road by Sary Mogol on the Kyrgyz / Tajik border
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  • The Cellars-Hohenort. Sitting on the back of Table Mountain, as well as a lovely place to base yourself to explore the region, this is a charming spot to enjoy the food and wine of the Cape in a working vineyard, not far from the amazing Kirstenbosch National Botanical Gardens
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  • The fabulous 30m tall Cristo Redentor (Christ the Redeemer) statue on the Corcovado mountain in Rio de Janeiro.
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  • Fresh mountain air. Looking over to Mont Blanc (4808m) from Flegere in the Chamonix valley and one of the many paragliders enjoying the thermals. Great views of the various climbing and hiking routes (particularly Gouter and Trois Monts) along the ridge line and the Grand Balcons.
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  • Potosí, one of the worlds highest cities at 4,090 metres (13,420 ft). A Spanish colonial mining city of huge wealth founded in 1545 - at one point around 60% of the world's silver came from the "Cerro Rio" (rich mountain) sitting behind the town, a lot of this going to produce the legendary "pieces of eight" or Spanish dollar. The mine is still active with a large number of local artisanal miners.
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  • The peace and remoteness of the Pamir & Tian Shan mountain near the Kyrgyz and Tajik borders
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  • Misty mountain hop. Dramatic clouds and mist rising after a storm in Chamonix valley
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  • Piz Gloria (2970m) is the revolving restaurant on the Schilthorn near Mürren in the Bernese Oberland, Switzerland. The cable car station and the restaurant were designed by the Bernese architect Konrad Wolf.
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  • Taking the Montenvers cog-railway (built in 1908) to the Mer de Glace above Chamonix. The second longest glacier in the Alps it is both fascinating to visit and tragic when you see how far it has receded with the warmer climate. As you decend into the classic U-shaped glacial valley you pass year markers of where the ice reached ....the last 50 years are staggering.
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  • Cog railway in Wengen, Switzerland
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  • Traditional bread in Kyrgyzstan
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  • Sunrise and balloons over the misty plains and temples of Bagan in central Burma is one of the world’s greatest archeological sites, a sight to rival Machu Picchu or Angkor Wat but – for the time being at least – without the visitors. The setting is sublime – a verdant 26 square-mile plain, part-covered in stands of palm and tamarind caught in a bend of the lazy-flowing Irrawaddy (Ayeyarwady) river and framed by the hazy silver-grey of distant mountains.
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  • Sunrise and balloons over the misty plains and temples of Bagan in central Burma is one of the world’s greatest archeological sites, a sight to rival Machu Picchu or Angkor Wat but – for the time being at least – without the visitors. The setting is sublime – a verdant 26 square-mile plain, part-covered in stands of palm and tamarind caught in a bend of the lazy-flowing Irrawaddy (Ayeyarwady) river and framed by the hazy silver-grey of distant mountains.
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  • Sunrise in Bagan, with a hint of drama. Bagan in central Burma is one of the world’s greatest archeological sites, a sight to rival Machu Picchu or Angkor Wat but – for the time being at least – without the visitors. The setting is sublime – a 26 square-mile plain, part-covered in stands of palm and tamarind caught in a bend of the lazy-flowing Irrawaddy (Ayeyarwady) river and framed by the hazy silver-grey of distant mountains.
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  • Life in the market of Chichicastanago. Surrounded by valleys with mountains cutting the horizons, Chichicastenango can seem isolated in time and space from the rest of Guatemala. Masheños (citizens of Chichicastenango) are famous for their adherence to pre-Christian beliefs and ceremonies.
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