Valley of Wonders (La Vallee des Merveilles) Videos
MEMORIES FROM THE VALLEY OF WONDERS (France) - SOUVENIRS DE LA VALLEE DES MERVEILLES
1984 : hiking in the Vallée des Merveilles (Valley of Wonders) in Mercantour National Park (France) and filmed by a relative on Super 8 Film. Since the transfer to digital was homemade, sorry for the not top-quality of the pictures.
Now, you just can't go there without an authorised guide because of vandalism made to the petroglyphs, archeological wonders the valley was named after, during the last decades.
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Edit : Yes, I know, it's Kodachrome, not Kodakrome. I don't know what I was thinking of when writing this.... Sorry.
Train des Merveilles - Train of Wonders Nice-Tende - Discover La Brigue & Peillon
A wonderful narrated French/English train ride passing by Nature wonders, bridges, valleys, perched villages leaving Nice train station at 9:17AM. Buy the Day Pass and hop on hop off all the beautiful villages from Nice to Tende. We stopped at La Brigue & one of the most beautiful but difficult to climb to, the perched village Peillon. We will have to stop at Tende, Sospel and Breil de Roya the next time. ►Help me reach my goal:
Cime du Gélas 360° summit panorama
A 360° panorama video taken at the summit of Cime du Gélas (3143 m) -- the highest mountain in the French part of the Maritime Alps (département des Alpes-Maritimes, France). I summited on 29 July 2012 at 12.37 pm after a solo ascent via the WSW ridge from Refuge de la Madone de Fenestre.
On the roof of Alpes Maritimes
The highest mountain pass la Bonette was opened for public traffic in 1961. The paved road makes a loop around the mountain and climbs to 2802m. There are several mountain roads in Europe higher than this but none of them connects a town or a region. Even so, this road is open for traffic only during the snowless period. Further down the road D64 is the hamlet of Bousiéyas, the highest village in Alpes Maritimes. The last allegedly permanent inhabitant, Madame Delmas, passed away alone there during one harsh winter in the 1960s. Today, there is a gîte during the summer season. The tour presented here is a classic hike ascending to the mountain crest of la Blanche south of Bousiéyas. After the initial ascent to the long crest, the scenery is extraordinary even for a seasoned hiker. You are in the middle of high terrain with an unobstructed view of major peaks in all directions. Details are described in French in the guidebook Rando Haut Pays/Crête de la Blanche. Duration: 5 h 30 min walking time. Vertical ascent: 760m. Map: Haute Tinée 1, TOP No 3639 OT Music courtesy of Far Out Recordings; Track Magnetic Feel (Roc Hunter) from the Album Far Out Jazz Funk.
Climbing on Cervelo S 2 to Col De Brauss, Alpes Maritimes Aug 24, 2012
Very hard but great climb to Col De Brauss 1002 m / 3.306.6 feet near Sospel, Alpes Maritimes, France with gradient 6 - 13 % ( average 8 % )