Alps Mountain Hike 1979 • @1MEMO_20260817 • Michel van der Burg • Miracles•Media • Beautiful Alps mountain hike from the Saint Guérin lake, via the Louze valley (this image), the ‘Col de la Louze’ mountain pass to the storm lakes ‘Lacs Tempêtes’ in the Beaufortain massif of French Alps, Summer 1979 . TakeNode a0ae8d4c-659e-4ac3-ba2d-61dba349a827
Lacs Tempêtes , Summer 1979 • @1MEMO_20260815 • Michel van der Burg • Miracles•Media • Lacs de la Tempête , Cevins , Savoie , France , 2100 m, Summer 1979 . TakeNode 0794288a-8433-4760-9e00-8580b975e18c
The Viller Bach – also called Ramsbach – flows from the top of the Patscherkofel mountain (in the background), via the village of Igls, to the village of Vill. Here, close to the Viller Steig path, the Via Tirolensis …
The Via Tirolensis is here following two pilgrimage routes at once : both the Camino de Santiago (St James Way , Jakobsweg) and the Via Romea Germanica.
The Viller Bach – also called Ramsbach – flows from the top of the Patscherkofel mountain, via the village of Igls, to the village of Vill. Here, close to the Viller Steig path, the Via Tirolensis …
The Via Tirolensis is here following two pilgrimage routes at once : both the Camino de Santiago (St James Way , Jakobsweg) and the Via Romea Germanica.
Elfstedentocht (Eleven Cities Skating Tour) Thursday 22 januari 1942 with extremely low temperatures, ranging from -33 Celcius at sunrise to -15 later that the day. Despite the German occupation, a record number of participants showed up at the start, 95% of whom managed to reach the finish. After the race, the Leeuwarden Diaconessen Hospital saw an influx of cold-related injuries. Many skaters suffered frostbite, including frostbitten eyes, ears, toes, hands, and even genitals. Some had to undergo amputations of their toes. Three tour riders later died in the hospital as a result of their frostbite injuries. (1). Nazi-approved dutch cinema news ‘Tobis Nieuws’.
Film source: Dutch newsreel by Polygoon (producer) in collaboration with the German Tobis Film for the Nazi controlled cinema news ‘Tobis Nieuws’ (Feb 1942). Courtesy of Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision (Open Images).
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