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Marino Curnis
Marino Curnis (born 7 May 1973) is an Italian writer, poet, musician, language student and traveller. He is known mainly because of his travel on foot from Bergamo, Italy, to Iran. His trip was called Eurasia Pedibus Calcantibus. It covered 6.000 kilometres over 13 months (9 January 2006 – 7 February 2007). Early life Marino Curnis was born in Bergamo, Italy. In 2003, he started to learn Esperanto and he earned first and second level diplomas. He has a Nursery Assistant School Diploma and a two-year course at Liceo specializing in humanities. Travelling He has taken many journeys on foot. In the Alps he ascended: Punta Rossa (Aosta, mt.3660), Pizzo Coca, Pizzo Camino, Pizzo Tre Signori and Corno Stella.. He twice trekked "Sentiero delle Orobie Orientali". In 2003, he walked along the "Camino de Santiago do Compostela" in the North of Spain, from St.Jean Pie-du-Port (France) to Santiago do Compostela (1021 km in 37 days). In 2006 he walked from Bergamo, Italy to Ira ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pizzo Tre Signori
Pizzo Tre Signori is a mountain in the Bergamo Alps, with an elevation of . Etymology The name stems from the historical division of the area that it marked, between the Duchy of Milan, State of Milan, the Republic of Venice and the Grisons canton of Switzerland. Geography The mountain is located between the Valtellina, Val Brembana and Valsassina. It represents the tripoint between the Italian provinces of Province of Sondrio, Sondrio, Province of Lecco, Lecco and Province of Bergamo, Bergamo. SOIUSA classification According to the SOIUSA (''International Standardized Mountain Subdivision of the Alps'') the mountain can be classified in the following way: *main part = Eastern Alps *major sector = Southern Limestone Alps *section = Bergamasque Alps and Prealps *subsection = Bergamo Alps *supergroup = Orobie Occidentali *group = Gruppo del Tre Signori *SOIUSA code, code = II/C-29.I-B.6 References Mountains of Lombardy Mountains of the Alps Two-thousanders of Italy {{B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leonardo Da Vinci
Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci (15 April 1452 - 2 May 1519) was an Italian polymath of the High Renaissance who was active as a painter, draughtsman, engineer, scientist, theorist, sculptor, and architect. While his fame initially rested on his achievements as a painter, he has also become known for #Journals and notes, his notebooks, in which he made drawings and notes on a variety of subjects, including anatomy, astronomy, botany, cartography, painting, and palaeontology. Leonardo is widely regarded to have been a genius who epitomised the Renaissance humanism, Renaissance humanist ideal, and his List of works by Leonardo da Vinci, collective works comprise a contribution to later generations of artists matched only by that of his younger contemporary Michelangelo. Born out of wedlock to a successful notary and a lower-class woman in, or near, Vinci, Tuscany, Vinci, he was educated in Florence by the Italian painter and sculptor Andrea del Verrocchio. He began his career ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nepal
Nepal, officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal, is a landlocked country in South Asia. It is mainly situated in the Himalayas, but also includes parts of the Indo-Gangetic Plain. It borders the Tibet Autonomous Region of China China–Nepal border, to the north, and India India–Nepal border, to the south, east, and west, while it is narrowly separated from Bangladesh by the Siliguri Corridor, and from Bhutan by the States and union territories of India, Indian state of Sikkim. Nepal has a Geography of Nepal, diverse geography, including Terai, fertile plains, subalpine forested hills, and eight of the world's ten List of highest mountains#List, tallest mountains, including Mount Everest, the highest point on Earth. Kathmandu is the nation's capital and List of cities in Nepal, its largest city. Nepal is a multi-ethnic, multi-lingual, multi-religious, and multi-cultural state, with Nepali language, Nepali as the official language. The name "Nepal" is first record ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pokhara
Pokhara ( ) is a metropolis, metropolitan city located in central Nepal, which serves as the capital of Gandaki Province. Named the country's "capital of tourism" it is the List of cities in Nepal, second largest city after Kathmandu, with 599,504 inhabitants living in 120,594 households as of 2021 Nepal census, 2021 census. Pokhara is located west of the capital, Kathmandu, on the shore of Phewa Lake, and sits at an average elevation of approximately 822 m above sea level. The Annapurna Range, with three out of the ten highest peaks in the world—Dhaulagiri, Annapurna, Annapurna I and Manaslu—is within aerial range from the valley. In 2024, Pokhara was declared as the tourism capital of Nepal, being a base for trekkers undertaking the Annapurna Circuit through the Annapurna Conservation Area region of the Annapurna ranges in the Himalayas. The city is also home to many of the elite Gurkha soldiers, soldiers native to South Asia of Nepalis, Nepalese nationality recrui ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Besisahar
Besishahar () is a municipality and the district headquarters of Lamjung District in Gandaki Province, Nepal. The Besishahar Municipality was formed by merging the existing Village development committee (Nepal), Village Development Committees i.e. Besishahar, Gaunsahar, Gaunshahar, Udipur, Puranakot,Nalma,Chandisthan, Balungpani, Baglungpani (wards no. 3, 4, 7, 8 & 9), Bajhakhet, Hiletaksar (wards no. 9) and Chiti and have 11 wards. This municipality has a sub-tropical climate with deciduous forests. Annapurna II, Machhapuchhre, Lamjung Himal can be viewed from north of Besishahar Municipality. Population At the time of the 2024 Annual Municipal Development Plan 2081/82 it had a population of 44,598 including Besishahar, Gaunsahar, Gaunshahar, Udipur, Chiti, Baglungpani, Bajhakhet and Chandisthan. The population of the municipality declined to 38,232 at the 2021 Nepal census. 99.5% of the residents were Nepal citizenship law, Nepali citizens and 81.2% were Literacy, literate in 20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Annapurna Massif
Annapurna (; ) is a massif in the Himalayas in north-central Nepal that includes one peak over , thirteen peaks over , and sixteen more over . The massif is long, and is bounded by the Kali Gandaki Gorge on the west, the Marshyangdi River on the north and east, and by the Pokhara Valley on the south. At its western end, the massif encloses a high basin called the Annapurna Sanctuary. The highest peak of the massif, Annapurna I Main, is the 10th highest mountain in the world at above sea level. Maurice Herzog led a French expedition to its summit through the north face in 1950, making it the first eight-thousander to be successfully climbed. The name for the range comes from the Hindu deity Annapurna meaning ''the giver of food and nourishment'' due to the evergreen flowing rivers originating from this mountain range which generate greenery and support vegetation year round on the lower plains. She is also believed to be one of the daughters of Himavat, the king of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Corno Stella
Corno Stella is a mountain of Lombardy, Italy. It is located within the Bergamo Alps The Bergamasque Alps or Bergamo Alps (; sometimes translated into English as Orobic Alps) are a mountain range in the Italian Alps. They are located in northern Lombardy and named after the city Bergamo, south of the mountains. Within the Easter .... Mountains of the Alps Mountains of Lombardy {{Lombardy-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pizzo Camino
Pizzo Camino (Pis Camì) is a mountain in the Bergamo Prealps, with a height of . It belongs to the massif dividing the upper Val di Scalve from the upper Val Camonica, together with the Concarena and the Cimone della Bagozza. It is on the boundaries between the provinces of Brescia and Bergamo. The summit is composed from limestone rocks, formed in the middle Triassic period from the former Tethys Ocean. The lower sides have instead a more sandstone-marl composition. SOIUSA classification According to the SOIUSA (''International Standardized Mountain Subdivision of the Alps'') the mountain can be classified in the following way: * main part = Eastern Alps * major sector = Southern Limestone Alps * section = Bergamasque Alps and Prealps * subsection = Bergamasque Prealps * supergroup = Prealpi Bergamasche Orientali * group = Gruppo Camino-Concarena * subgroup = Gruppo del Pizzo Camino * code In communications and information processing, code is a system of rules to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Travel
Travel is the movement of people between distant geographical Location (geography), locations. Travel can be done by Pedestrian, foot, bicycle, automobile, train, boat, bus, airplane, ship or other means, with or without Baggage, luggage, and can be one way or round trip. Travel can also include relatively short stays between successive movements, as in the case of tourism. Etymology The origin of the word "travel" is most likely lost to history. The term "travel" may originate from the Old French word ''travail'', which means 'work'. According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, the first known use of the word ''travel'' was in the 14th century. It also states that the word comes from Middle English , (which means to torment, labor, strive, journey) and earlier from Old French (which means to work strenuously, toil). In English, people still occasionally use the words , which means struggle. According to Simon Winchester in his book ''The Best Travelers' Tales (2004)'', ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pizzo Coca
Pizzo Coca () is a mountain that straddles the Val Seriana and the Valtellina in Lombardy, Italy. It is the highest peak in the Bergamo Alps (also called the Orobie Alps). Its height is 3,050 metres with a prominence height of 1,878 metres and a saddle of 1,172 metres. A post-glacial valley exists near a point called (literally "little man in rock") at 2,400 meters. Geology and orogeny The Alps form a part of a tertiary orogenic belt of mountain chains, called the Alpide belt, that stretches through southern Europe and Asia from the Atlantic stretching eastward to the Himalayas. The Bergamo Alps have three prominent peaks named Pizzo Coca, Punta Scaiss and Pizzo Redorta. As with its parent Alpine belt, Pizzo Coca is composed of "dark-coloured" sedimentary mountain rock with "huge rocky spurs" known as a pyramid type peak. Pizzo Coca, along with the other Bergamo crystalline peaks, exist parallel to the Valtellina Valley. Narrow and vertical chimney clefts stretch towards ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Piz Cotschen (Ortler Alps)
Piz Cotschen, also named ''Rötlspitz'' or ''Punta Rosa'', is a mountain of the Ortler Alps, overlooking both the Umbrail and Stelvio Pass. Its summit is located within the Swiss canton of Graubünden, near the border with Italy Italy, officially the Italian Republic, is a country in Southern Europe, Southern and Western Europe, Western Europe. It consists of Italian Peninsula, a peninsula that extends into the Mediterranean Sea, with the Alps on its northern land b .... References External links Piz Cotschen on Hikr.org Ortler Alps Mountains of Graubünden Mountains of the Alps Alpine three-thousanders Mountains partially in Italy Mountains of Switzerland Val Müstair {{graubünden-mountain-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
