The Tegernsee International Mountain Film Festival offers breathtaking adventures in ice and rock, magnificent images, impressive landscapes, interesting guests and a varied supporting programme. The festival has been held in the wonderful setting of Lake Tegernsee since 2003 and, alongside Graz and Banff, is a member of the Mountain Film Alliance.
The Weitsicht Festival in Frankfurt has a long-standing tradition; it has been organised since 1993 by the renowned multi-vision speaker Dieter Glogowski. He presents a programme featuring top-tier lectures by well-known photographers such as Michael Martin or Bruno Baumann and awards a prize of up to €10,000 to socially committed photographers and journalists.
Since 1999, the El Mundo Festival in Judenburg, Austria, has been drawing crowds with a top-class programme of travel presentations. Any photographer can apply, and their entries are evaluated and awarded prizes by an international jury.
Behind the Po Lin Monastery and the gigantic sitting Buddha statue, in the centre of Lantau Island, Hong Kong, a small path leads up to the burial grounds of some monks and disappears into the distance on the slopes of Lantau Peak (943 m), whose summit panorama invites you to a climb of about 4 km and 400 metres in altitude. The path is part of the 70 km long Lantau Trail, which crosses the entire island. It is just as challenging as the Hong Kong Trail because the path constantly goes up and down over the mountains in the centre; the humid heat doesn’t help. By the way: over the 50 km route and many thousands of metres in altitude of the Hong Kong Trail , an exclusive charity marathon to support autistic children, called the Rainbow Trek, takes place every year, where a group of 4 runners must all reach the finish line and are only allowed a 30-minute break halfway through. If that’s not challenging enough, you can turn to the Maclehose Trail over 100 km in the New Territories .
The Flinders Ranges in southern Australia are known for the dazzling, intense light that makes sunglasses an absolute necessity. Glistening quanta of light envelop the landscape; bright and clear, the sun’s rays penetrate every spot on the earth, which absorbs the individual sunbeams and releases them again at dusk. In this gentle glow of the grassy hills, the dusty road winds its way to a wide plain, where dozens of grazing kangaroos come together in a harmonious interplay of shadowy figures in the twilight. Far too quickly, the star-studded night descends, setting a cool contrast to the day that has passed.
The climate-favoured coast of Liguria in western Italy, near the French border, rises steeply from the blue waves of the Mediterranean. In some sheltered coves, fishing villages have nestled between the narrow valley walls, while further inland, other villages perch on the mountain ridges. This 12 km long coastal section, with its five villages of Monterosso al Mare, Vernazza, Corniglia, Manarola, and Riomaggiore, is known as Cinque Terre. The slopes are covered with olive groves, vineyards, and small gardens, which, alongside fishing, provided a livelihood in earlier times. Like the rest of Italy, Liguria is an ancient cultural landscape, cultivated by people over a long tradition. From this tradition, the much-praised Italian cuisine developed, enticing travellers to the table with the sensual aromas that fill the land.
North of the Arctic Circle in Norway, jagged peaks and rocks rise from the sea like teeth, forming the fantastic Lofoten archipelago. Alongside this dramatic landscape of rugged cliffs and the powerful tidal currents of the Norwegian Sea, the colourful fishermen’s huts, known as ‘rorbuer’, and the A-frame drying racks are further landmarks of these unique islands off the Norwegian coast. This is also the source of a culinary speciality, stockfish, which became popular in Southern Europe early on due to its high protein content. Every spring, the settlements fill with thousands of fishermen awaiting the migration of the Arctic cod. After being caught, the fish are preserved in the dry winter cold. Hung on the racks alongside bundles of fish heads, they create a bizarre sight well into the summer.
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