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  • Two walkers make their way down a mountain footpath in  Polana Chocholowska, a hiking route in the Polish Tatra mountains, on 17th September 2019, near Zakopane, Malopolska, Poland.
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  • Walkers rest and make their way down a mountain footpath in  Polana Chocholowska, a hiking route in the Polish Tatra mountains, on 17th September 2019, near Zakopane, Malopolska, Poland.
    poland-111-17-09-2019.jpg
  • With the help of sticks, a walker makes his way past a mountain hut alongside the stony road in Dolina Chocholowska, a hiking route in the Polish Tatra mountains, on 17th September 2019, near Zakopane, Malopolska, Poland.
    poland-105-17-09-2019.jpg
  • With the help of sticks, a walker makes his way past a mountain hut alongside the stony road in Dolina Chocholowska, a hiking route in the Polish Tatra mountains, on 17th September 2019, near Zakopane, Malopolska, Poland.
    poland-104-17-09-2019.jpg
  • A young couple stand with the backdrop of Welsh mountains and hills in the background in the 1970s. Helping her husband to light his cigarette in a breeze, the woman's coat is blowing in the wind, so high up in the mountains have they stopped during a daytrip to the north Welsh hills. Rolling misty mountains are in the distance as bad weather appears to be approaching. It was taken on a film camera by the man's father, an amateur photographer in 1973. The picture shows us a memory of nostalgia in an era from the last century.
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  • With the help of sticks, a walker makes his way past a mountain hut alongside the stony road in Dolina Chocholowska, a hiking route in the Polish Tatra mountains, on 17th September 2019, near Zakopane, Malopolska, Poland.
    poland-106-17-09-2019.jpg
  • With a backdrop of mountains associated with the slate mining industry, smoke rises from the chimney of a property, on 2nd October 2021, in Blaenau Ffestiniog, Gwynedd, Wales. In 2021, the derelict slate mines around Blaenau Ffestiniog in north Wales were awarded UNESCO World Heritage status. Mined for roof tiles since Roman times, the industry’s heyday was the 1890s when the Welsh slate industry employed approximately 17,000 workers, producing almost 500,000 tonnes of slate a year, around a third of all roofing slate used in the world in the late 19th century. Welsh slate was used on buildings across the globe including Westminster Hall in London’s Houses of Parliament. In 1830, half the buildings in New York had roofs made of Welsh slate. However, only 10% of slate was ever of good enough quality and the surrounding mountains now have slate waste and the ruined remains of machinery, workshops and shelters have changed the landscape for square miles.
    blaenau_ffestiniog-03-02-10-2021.jpg
  • With a backdrop of mountains associated with the slate mining industry, smoke rises from the chimney of a property, on 2nd October 2021, in Blaenau Ffestiniog, Gwynedd, Wales. In 2021, the derelict slate mines around Blaenau Ffestiniog in north Wales were awarded UNESCO World Heritage status. Mined for roof tiles since Roman times, the industry’s heyday was the 1890s when the Welsh slate industry employed approximately 17,000 workers, producing almost 500,000 tonnes of slate a year, around a third of all roofing slate used in the world in the late 19th century. Welsh slate was used on buildings across the globe including Westminster Hall in London’s Houses of Parliament. In 1830, half the buildings in New York had roofs made of Welsh slate. However, only 10% of slate was ever of good enough quality and the surrounding mountains now have slate waste and the ruined remains of machinery, workshops and shelters have changed the landscape for square miles.
    blaenau_ffestiniog-02-02-10-2021.jpg
  • With the highest peaks in Slovenia in the distance is a traditional Slovenian mountain hut in the Slovenian Julian Alps, on 22nd June 2018, in Trenta, Triglav National Park, Slovenia. Beyond are the mountains, Kreiski 2050m, Pihavec 2419m, Dolina Zadnjica and Triglav 2864m.
    slovenia-211-22-06-2018.jpg
  • A traditional Polish mountain shepherd's hut selling cheeses to visitors, on 21st September 2019, in Jaworki, near Szczawnica, Malopolska, Poland. Log cabins houses such as these often sell Oszczypek, a smoked cheese made of salted sheep milk exclusively in the Tatra Mountains region of Poland.
    poland-214-21-09-2019.jpg
  • A traditional Polish mountain shepherd's hut selling cheeses to visitors, on 21st September 2019, in Jaworki, near Szczawnica, Malopolska, Poland. Log cabins houses such as these often sell Oszczypek, a smoked cheese made of salted sheep milk exclusively in the Tatra Mountains region of Poland.
    poland-215-21-09-2019.jpg
  • With the highest peaks in Slovenia in the distance is a traditional Slovenian mountain hut in the Slovenian Julian Alps, on 22nd June 2018, in Trenta, Triglav National Park, Slovenia. Beyond are the mountains, Kreiski 2050m, Pihavec 2419m, Dolina Zadnjica and Triglav 2864m.
    slovenia-213-22-06-2018.jpg
  • With the highest peaks in Slovenia in the distance is a traditional Slovenian mountain hut in the Slovenian Julian Alps, on 22nd June 2018, in Trenta, Triglav National Park, Slovenia. Beyond are the mountains, Kreiski 2050m, Pihavec 2419m, Dolina Zadnjica and Triglav 2864m.
    slovenia-212-22-06-2018.jpg
  • An aerial landscape that overlooks the Tatra mountains in the Polish town of Koscielisko, on 16th September 2019, near Zakopane, Malopolska, Poland.
    poland-01-16-09-2019.jpg
  • A single hiker descends from the tops of southern Polish mountains, on 20th September 2019, Biala Woda, Jaworki, near Szczawnica, Malopolska, Poland.
    poland-177-20-09-2019.jpg
  • A single hiker descends from the tops of southern Polish mountains, on 20th September 2019, Biala Woda, Jaworki, near Szczawnica, Malopolska, Poland.
    poland-173-20-09-2019.jpg
  • A walker rests with a background of spruce trees and the meadows of a farm where hikers are discouraged from crossing over wooden agricultural fencing in Dolina Chocholowska, a hiking route in the Polish Tatra mountains, on 17th September 2019, near Zakopane, Malopolska, Poland.
    poland-109-17-09-2019.jpg
  • A display of shoes and their shoe boxes beneath a large photo of spruce forests and peaks of the nearby Tatra mountains, on 17th September 2019, in Zakopane, Malopolska, Poland.
    poland-76-17-09-2019.jpg
  • Traditional Polish haystacks on agricultural land that is overlooked by the Tatra mountains, on 16th September 2019, in Koscielisko, Zakopane, Malopolska, Poland.
    poland-23-18-09-2019.jpg
  • An aerial landscape of new housing that is overlooked by the Tatra mountains in the Polish town of Koscielisko, on 16th September 2019, near Zakopane, Malopolska, Poland. Local wealth has encouraged tourism apartments and short-stay properties in the Zakopane and Tatra National Park region, a very popular outdoor activity destination for city-dwelling Poles but at the cost of the local environment and landscape.
    poland-12-16-09-2019.jpg
  • An aerial landscape of new housing in the Polish town of Koscielisko that is overlooked by the Tatra mountains, on 16th September 2019, near Zakopane, Malopolska, Poland. Local wealth has encouraged tourism apartments and short-stay properties in the Zakopane and Tatra National Park region, a very popular outdoor activity destination for city-dwelling Poles but at the cost of the local environment and landscape.
    poland-07-18-09-2019.jpg
  • An aerial landscape of new housing in the Polish town of Koscielisko that is overlooked by the Tatra mountains, on 16th September 2019, near Zakopane, Malopolska, Poland. Local wealth has encouraged tourism apartments and short-stay properties in the Zakopane and Tatra National Park region, a very popular outdoor activity destination for city-dwelling Poles but at the cost of the local environment and landscape.
    poland-04-16-09-2019.jpg
  • An aerial landscape that overlooks the Tatra mountains in the Polish town of Koscielisko, on 16th September 2019, near Zakopane, Malopolska, Poland.
    poland-03-16-09-2019.jpg
  • An aerial landscape of new housing that is overlooked by the Tatra mountains in the Polish town of Koscielisko, on 16th September 2019, near Zakopane, Malopolska, Poland. Local wealth has encouraged tourism apartments and short-stay properties in the Zakopane and Tatra National Park region, a very popular outdoor activity destination for city-dwelling Poles but at the cost of the local environment and landscape.
    poland-02-16-09-2019.jpg
  • Across the calm waters of a Scottish bay, isolated houses and crofts sit before the dramatic Cuillin Mountains that rise up in the distance on the Isle of Skye, Scotland. Sunlight from unusually fine weather spreads across this beautiful landscape seen from the road to Dunvegan, near the hamlet of Harlosh. Farming practices have changed irreversably in a generation and many southerners have English accents rather than that of native Scots islanders as city dwellers from the far south seek an alternative to urban lifestyles. The weather can have adverse effects on those unprepared for such wild conditions, especially during harsh winters when violent storms batter these Atlantic coasts. But old crofts have been converted to bed and breakfast homes, catering for tourist visitors who adore this form of idyllic escapism.
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  • With the mountains of the Tatra National Park and the Slovakian border in the distance, Polish walkers rest on spruce log benches, on 18th September 2019, in Dolina Malejlaki, near Zakopane, Malopolska, Poland.
    poland-131-18-09-2019.jpg
  • A lady walker makes her way along the stony road in Dolina Chocholowska, a hiking route in the Polish Tatra mountains, on 17th September 2019, near Zakopane, Malopolska, Poland.
    poland-122-17-09-2019.jpg
  • A landscape of spruce trees and the meadows of a farm where hikers are discouraged from crossing over wooden agricultural fencing in Dolina Chocholowska, a hiking route in the Polish Tatra mountains, on 17th September 2019, near Zakopane, Malopolska, Poland.
    poland-107-17-09-2019.jpg
  • A landscape of spruce trees and the meadows of a farm where hikers are discouraged from crossing over wooden agricultural fencing in Dolina Chocholowska, a hiking route in the Polish Tatra mountains, on 17th September 2019, near Zakopane, Malopolska, Poland.
    poland-108-17-09-2019.jpg
  • A lady walker makes her way along the stony road in Dolina Chocholowska, a hiking route in the Polish Tatra mountains, on 17th September 2019, near Zakopane, Malopolska, Poland.
    poland-103-17-09-2019.jpg
  • A lady walker makes her way along the stony road in Dolina Chocholowska, a hiking route in the Polish Tatra mountains, on 17th September 2019, near Zakopane, Malopolska, Poland.
    poland-99-17-09-2019.jpg
  • Cyclists climb along a cobbled road in Dolina Chocholowska, a hiking route in the Polish Tatra mountains, on 17th September 2019, near Zakopane, Malopolska, Poland.
    poland-98-17-09-2019.jpg
  • Cyclists climb along a cobbled road in Dolina Chocholowska, a hiking route in the Polish Tatra mountains, on 17th September 2019, near Zakopane, Malopolska, Poland.
    poland-97-17-09-2019.jpg
  • A traditional agricultural hut in Dolina Chocholowska, a hiking route in the Tatra National Park, on 17th September 2019, near Zakopane, Malopolska, Poland. Smoke houses such as these sell Oszczypek, a smoked cheese made of salted sheep milk exclusively in the Tatra Mountains region of Poland.
    poland-83-17-09-2019.jpg
  • An evening landscape of a local yoga class outside a restaurant and hotel that overlooks the mountains of the Tatra National Park, on 16th September 2019, in Koscielisko, Zakopane, Malopolska, Poland.
    poland-74-16-09-2019.jpg
  • An aerial landscape of new housing that is overlooked by the Tatra mountains in the Polish town of Koscielisko, on 16th September 2019, near Zakopane, Malopolska, Poland. Local wealth has encouraged tourism apartments and short-stay properties in the Zakopane and Tatra National Park region, a very popular outdoor activity destination for city-dwelling Poles but at the cost of the local environment and landscape.
    poland-13-16-09-2019.jpg
  • An aerial landscape of new housing that is overlooked by the Tatra mountains in the Polish town of Koscielisko, on 16th September 2019, near Zakopane, Malopolska, Poland. Local wealth has encouraged tourism apartments and short-stay properties in the Zakopane and Tatra National Park region, a very popular outdoor activity destination for city-dwelling Poles but at the cost of the local environment and landscape.
    poland-11-16-09-2019.jpg
  • An aerial landscape of new housing that is overlooked by the Tatra mountains in the Polish town of Koscielisko, on 16th September 2019, near Zakopane, Malopolska, Poland. Local wealth has encouraged tourism apartments and short-stay properties in the Zakopane and Tatra National Park region, a very popular outdoor activity destination for city-dwelling Poles but at the cost of the local environment and landscape.
    poland-09-16-09-2019.jpg
  • An aerial landscape of new housing in the Polish town of Koscielisko that is overlooked by the Tatra mountains, on 16th September 2019, near Zakopane, Malopolska, Poland. Local wealth has encouraged tourism apartments and short-stay properties in the Zakopane and Tatra National Park region, a very popular outdoor activity destination for city-dwelling Poles but at the cost of the local environment and landscape.
    poland-08-18-09-2019.jpg
  • An aerial landscape of new housing in the Polish town of Koscielisko that is overlooked by the Tatra mountains, on 16th September 2019, near Zakopane, Malopolska, Poland. Local wealth has encouraged tourism apartments and short-stay properties in the Zakopane and Tatra National Park region, a very popular outdoor activity destination for city-dwelling Poles but at the cost of the local environment and landscape.
    poland-06-16-09-2019.jpg
  • An aerial landscape of new housing in the Polish town of Koscielisko that is overlooked by the Tatra mountains, on 16th September 2019, near Zakopane, Malopolska, Poland. Local wealth has encouraged tourism apartments and short-stay properties in the Zakopane and Tatra National Park region, a very popular outdoor activity destination for city-dwelling Poles but at the cost of the local environment and landscape.
    poland-05-16-09-2019.jpg
  • An aerial landscape of new housing that is overlooked by the Tatra mountains in the Polish town of Koscielisko, on 16th September 2019, near Zakopane, Malopolska, Poland. Local wealth has encouraged tourism apartments and short-stay properties in the Zakopane and Tatra National Park region, a very popular outdoor activity destination for city-dwelling Poles but at the cost of the local environment and landscape.
    poland-10-16-09-2019.jpg
  • A mountain of slate waste is seen above the town of Blaenau Ffestiniog, on 2nd October 2021, in Blaenau Ffestiniog, Gwynedd, Wales. The derelict slate mines around Blaenau Ffestiniog in north Wales were awarded UNESCO World Heritage status in 2021. The industry’s heyday was the 1890s when the Welsh slate industry employed approximately 17,000 workers, producing almost 500,000 tonnes of slate a year, around a third of all roofing slate used in the world in the late 19th century. Only 10% of slate was ever of good enough quality and the surrounding mountains now have slate waste and the ruined remains of machinery, workshops and shelters have changed the landscape for square miles.
    blaenau_ffestiniog-31-02-10-2021.jpg
  • A mountain of slate waste is seen above the town of Blaenau Ffestiniog, on 2nd October 2021, in Blaenau Ffestiniog, Gwynedd, Wales. The derelict slate mines around Blaenau Ffestiniog in north Wales were awarded UNESCO World Heritage status in 2021. The industry’s heyday was the 1890s when the Welsh slate industry employed approximately 17,000 workers, producing almost 500,000 tonnes of slate a year, around a third of all roofing slate used in the world in the late 19th century. Only 10% of slate was ever of good enough quality and the surrounding mountains now have slate waste and the ruined remains of machinery, workshops and shelters have changed the landscape for square miles.
    blaenau_ffestiniog-30-02-10-2021.jpg
  • Seen from a hillside opposite, with the clear blue backdrop of the snow-covered Himalayan mountain peaks, a Nepalese family crouch on the hilltop to rest during a family walk from their community village near Gorkha, Central Nepal. In the middle of the picture, a young girl twirls and dances across the clearing as her parents and siblings watch, drawfed by the powerfully- dominant range of natural features that form part of the highest altitudes on earth although Gorkha is only 3281 feet (about 1000 meters) above sea level. These peoples' homes cling to the sides of impressive mountains that draw tens of thousands of travellers to this region to trek the paths and conservation sanctuaries of this fast-developing Buddhist and Hindu Kingdom.
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  • In afternoon sunshine, autumn leaves and far away mountains with light cloud on their peaks are viewed from across a clear valley landscape, seen from the roadside near Levidi in Arcadia, between Tripolis and Argos on the Peloponnese region of south-western Greece. At 850m above sea level, pine forests and the slopes of the Mainalo mountains (a mountain range that spans about 15 to 20 from north to south (southwest of Tripolis to NE of Vytina), surrounds the town which lies to the west. The valley contains potato agriculture and mixed farming and extends up to near Kandila. The athlete called Androsthenes was from Maenalus, won gold at the ancient Olympics in 420 and 416 BC.
    greek_olympiad007-21-10_2003.jpg
  • With slate mountains dominating above, an aerial view of houses in the industrial revolution-era town of Blaenau Ffestiniog, on 5th October 2021, in Blaenau Ffestiniog, Gwynedd, Wales. The derelict slate mines around Blaenau Ffestiniog in north Wales were awarded UNESCO World Heritage status in 2021. The industry’s heyday was the 1890s when the Welsh slate industry employed approximately 17,000 workers, producing almost 500,000 tonnes of slate a year, around a third of all roofing slate used in the world in the late 19th century. Only 10% of slate was ever of good enough quality and the surrounding mountains now have slate waste and the ruined remains of machinery, workshops and shelters have changed the landscape for square miles.
    blaenau_ffestiniog-57-05-10-2021.jpg
  • With slate mountains dominating above, an aerial view of houses in the industrial revolution-era town of Blaenau Ffestiniog, on 5th October 2021, in Blaenau Ffestiniog, Gwynedd, Wales. The derelict slate mines around Blaenau Ffestiniog in north Wales were awarded UNESCO World Heritage status in 2021. The industry’s heyday was the 1890s when the Welsh slate industry employed approximately 17,000 workers, producing almost 500,000 tonnes of slate a year, around a third of all roofing slate used in the world in the late 19th century. Only 10% of slate was ever of good enough quality and the surrounding mountains now have slate waste and the ruined remains of machinery, workshops and shelters have changed the landscape for square miles.
    blaenau_ffestiniog-54-05-10-2021.jpg
  • With slate mountains dominating above, an aerial view of houses in the industrial revolution-era town of Blaenau Ffestiniog, on 5th October 2021, in Blaenau Ffestiniog, Gwynedd, Wales. The derelict slate mines around Blaenau Ffestiniog in north Wales were awarded UNESCO World Heritage status in 2021. The industry’s heyday was the 1890s when the Welsh slate industry employed approximately 17,000 workers, producing almost 500,000 tonnes of slate a year, around a third of all roofing slate used in the world in the late 19th century. Only 10% of slate was ever of good enough quality and the surrounding mountains now have slate waste and the ruined remains of machinery, workshops and shelters have changed the landscape for square miles.
    blaenau_ffestiniog-69-05-10-2021.jpg
  • With slate mountains dominating above, an aerial view of houses in the industrial revolution-era town of Blaenau Ffestiniog, on 5th October 2021, in Blaenau Ffestiniog, Gwynedd, Wales. The derelict slate mines around Blaenau Ffestiniog in north Wales were awarded UNESCO World Heritage status in 2021. The industry’s heyday was the 1890s when the Welsh slate industry employed approximately 17,000 workers, producing almost 500,000 tonnes of slate a year, around a third of all roofing slate used in the world in the late 19th century. Only 10% of slate was ever of good enough quality and the surrounding mountains now have slate waste and the ruined remains of machinery, workshops and shelters have changed the landscape for square miles.
    blaenau_ffestiniog-58-05-10-2021.jpg
  • With slate mountains dominating above, an aerial view of houses in the industrial revolution-era town of Blaenau Ffestiniog, on 5th October 2021, in Blaenau Ffestiniog, Gwynedd, Wales. The derelict slate mines around Blaenau Ffestiniog in north Wales were awarded UNESCO World Heritage status in 2021. The industry’s heyday was the 1890s when the Welsh slate industry employed approximately 17,000 workers, producing almost 500,000 tonnes of slate a year, around a third of all roofing slate used in the world in the late 19th century. Only 10% of slate was ever of good enough quality and the surrounding mountains now have slate waste and the ruined remains of machinery, workshops and shelters have changed the landscape for square miles.
    blaenau_ffestiniog-56-05-10-2021.jpg
  • With slate mountains dominating above, an aerial view of houses in the industrial revolution-era town of Blaenau Ffestiniog, on 5th October 2021, in Blaenau Ffestiniog, Gwynedd, Wales. The derelict slate mines around Blaenau Ffestiniog in north Wales were awarded UNESCO World Heritage status in 2021. The industry’s heyday was the 1890s when the Welsh slate industry employed approximately 17,000 workers, producing almost 500,000 tonnes of slate a year, around a third of all roofing slate used in the world in the late 19th century. Only 10% of slate was ever of good enough quality and the surrounding mountains now have slate waste and the ruined remains of machinery, workshops and shelters have changed the landscape for square miles.
    blaenau_ffestiniog-55-05-10-2021.jpg
  • Slate mountains dominate local streets and terraced homes at dawn, on 3rd October 2021, in Blaenau Ffestiniog, Gwynedd, Wales. The derelict slate mines around Blaenau Ffestiniog in north Wales were awarded UNESCO World Heritage status in 2021. The industry’s heyday was the 1890s when the Welsh slate industry employed approximately 17,000 workers, producing almost 500,000 tonnes of slate a year, around a third of all roofing slate used in the world in the late 19th century. Only 10% of slate was ever of good enough quality and the surrounding mountains now have slate waste and the ruined remains of machinery, workshops and shelters have changed the landscape for square miles.
    blaenau_ffestiniog-07-03-10-2021.jpg
  • A portrait of a middle-aged man with Welsh mountains and hills in the background, taken on a film camera by an amateur photographer in the 1970s. Standing with hands on hips, the gentleman wearing a short red top is alone on the hillside during a daytrip to the north Welsh mountains in 1973. With the rolling valley and peaks in cloud in the distance, the scene is a tranquil landscape. The picture shows us a memory of nostalgia in an era from the last century.
    70s_family02-13-09-1973.jpg
  • A mountain of slate dominates terraced housing and a church, on 3rd October 2021, in Blaenau Ffestiniog, Gwynedd, Wales. The derelict slate mines around Blaenau Ffestiniog in north Wales were awarded UNESCO World Heritage status in 2021. The industry’s heyday was the 1890s when the Welsh slate industry employed approximately 17,000 workers, producing almost 500,000 tonnes of slate a year, around a third of all roofing slate used in the world in the late 19th century. Only 10% of slate was ever of good enough quality and the surrounding mountains now have slate waste and the ruined remains of machinery, workshops and shelters have changed the landscape for square miles.
    blaenau_ffestiniog-26-06-10-2021.jpg
  • A mountain of slate dominates terraced housing and a church, on 3rd October 2021, in Blaenau Ffestiniog, Gwynedd, Wales. The derelict slate mines around Blaenau Ffestiniog in north Wales were awarded UNESCO World Heritage status in 2021. The industry’s heyday was the 1890s when the Welsh slate industry employed approximately 17,000 workers, producing almost 500,000 tonnes of slate a year, around a third of all roofing slate used in the world in the late 19th century. Only 10% of slate was ever of good enough quality and the surrounding mountains now have slate waste and the ruined remains of machinery, workshops and shelters have changed the landscape for square miles.
    blaenau_ffestiniog-25-04-10-2021.jpg
  • A mountain of slate dominates terraced housing, on 3rd October 2021, in Blaenau Ffestiniog, Gwynedd, Wales. The derelict slate mines around Blaenau Ffestiniog in north Wales were awarded UNESCO World Heritage status in 2021. The industry’s heyday was the 1890s when the Welsh slate industry employed approximately 17,000 workers, producing almost 500,000 tonnes of slate a year, around a third of all roofing slate used in the world in the late 19th century. Only 10% of slate was ever of good enough quality and the surrounding mountains now have slate waste and the ruined remains of machinery, workshops and shelters have changed the landscape for square miles.
    blaenau_ffestiniog-22-03-10-2021.jpg
  • A mountain of slate dominates terraced housing, on 3rd October 2021, in Blaenau Ffestiniog, Gwynedd, Wales. The derelict slate mines around Blaenau Ffestiniog in north Wales were awarded UNESCO World Heritage status in 2021. The industry’s heyday was the 1890s when the Welsh slate industry employed approximately 17,000 workers, producing almost 500,000 tonnes of slate a year, around a third of all roofing slate used in the world in the late 19th century. Only 10% of slate was ever of good enough quality and the surrounding mountains now have slate waste and the ruined remains of machinery, workshops and shelters have changed the landscape for square miles.
    blaenau_ffestiniog-23-03-10-2021.jpg
  • With a backdrop of mountains associated with the slate mining industry, smoke rises from the chimney of a property, on 2nd October 2021, in Blaenau Ffestiniog, Gwynedd, Wales. The derelict slate mines around Blaenau Ffestiniog in north Wales were awarded UNESCO World Heritage status in 2021. The industry’s heyday was the 1890s when the Welsh slate industry employed approximately 17,000 workers, producing almost 500,000 tonnes of slate a year, around a third of all roofing slate used in the world in the late 19th century. Only 10% of slate was ever of good enough quality and the surrounding mountains now have slate waste and the ruined remains of machinery, workshops and shelters have changed the landscape for square miles.
    blaenau_ffestiniog-05-04-10-2021.jpg
  • With a backdrop of mountains associated with the slate mining industry, smoke rises from the chimney of a property, on 2nd October 2021, in Blaenau Ffestiniog, Gwynedd, Wales. The derelict slate mines around Blaenau Ffestiniog in north Wales were awarded UNESCO World Heritage status in 2021. The industry’s heyday was the 1890s when the Welsh slate industry employed approximately 17,000 workers, producing almost 500,000 tonnes of slate a year, around a third of all roofing slate used in the world in the late 19th century. Only 10% of slate was ever of good enough quality and the surrounding mountains now have slate waste and the ruined remains of machinery, workshops and shelters have changed the landscape for square miles.
    blaenau_ffestiniog-04-04-10-2021.jpg
  • Walkers rest at a picnic table that overlooks the jighest of Slovenian mountains of Triglav national Park, in Velika Planina, on 26th June 2018, in Velika Planina, near Kamnik, Slovenia. Velika Planina is a mountain plateau in the Kamnik–Savinja Alps - a 5.8 square kilometres area 1,500 metres (4,900 feet) above sea level. Otherwise known as The Big Pasture Plateau, Velika Planina is a winter skiing destination and hiking route in summer. The herders' huts became popular in the early 1930s as holiday cabins (known as bajtarstvo) but these were were destroyed by the Germans during WW2 and rebuilt right afterwards by Vlasto Kopac in the summer of 1945.
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  • Walkers rest at a picnic table that overlooks the jighest of Slovenian mountains of Triglav national Park, in Velika Planina, on 26th June 2018, in Velika Planina, near Kamnik, Slovenia. Velika Planina is a mountain plateau in the Kamnik–Savinja Alps - a 5.8 square kilometres area 1,500 metres (4,900 feet) above sea level. Otherwise known as The Big Pasture Plateau, Velika Planina is a winter skiing destination and hiking route in summer. The herders' huts became popular in the early 1930s as holiday cabins (known as bajtarstvo) but these were were destroyed by the Germans during WW2 and rebuilt right afterwards by Vlasto Kopac in the summer of 1945.
    slovenia-482-26-06-2018.jpg
  • Incongruous and confusing landscape of natural world mountains and urban background.
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  • Incongruous and confusing landscape of natural world mountains and urban background.
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  • A mountain of slate dominates a rugby field, terraced housing and a church, on 3rd October 2021, in Blaenau Ffestiniog, Gwynedd, Wales. The derelict slate mines around Blaenau Ffestiniog in north Wales were awarded UNESCO World Heritage status in 2021. The industry’s heyday was the 1890s when the Welsh slate industry employed approximately 17,000 workers, producing almost 500,000 tonnes of slate a year, around a third of all roofing slate used in the world in the late 19th century. Only 10% of slate was ever of good enough quality and the surrounding mountains now have slate waste and the ruined remains of machinery, workshops and shelters have changed the landscape for square miles.
    blaenau_ffestiniog-28-06-10-2021.jpg
  • A mountain of slate dominates terraced housing and a church, on 3rd October 2021, in Blaenau Ffestiniog, Gwynedd, Wales. The derelict slate mines around Blaenau Ffestiniog in north Wales were awarded UNESCO World Heritage status in 2021. The industry’s heyday was the 1890s when the Welsh slate industry employed approximately 17,000 workers, producing almost 500,000 tonnes of slate a year, around a third of all roofing slate used in the world in the late 19th century. Only 10% of slate was ever of good enough quality and the surrounding mountains now have slate waste and the ruined remains of machinery, workshops and shelters have changed the landscape for square miles.
    blaenau_ffestiniog-27-06-10-2021.jpg
  • A mountain of slate dominates terraced housing, on 3rd October 2021, in Blaenau Ffestiniog, Gwynedd, Wales. The derelict slate mines around Blaenau Ffestiniog in north Wales were awarded UNESCO World Heritage status in 2021. The industry’s heyday was the 1890s when the Welsh slate industry employed approximately 17,000 workers, producing almost 500,000 tonnes of slate a year, around a third of all roofing slate used in the world in the late 19th century. Only 10% of slate was ever of good enough quality and the surrounding mountains now have slate waste and the ruined remains of machinery, workshops and shelters have changed the landscape for square miles.
    blaenau_ffestiniog-24-03-10-2021.jpg
  • Cyclist climbs past hamlet chapel with presence of huge Dolomites mountains of the Puez Geisler range in the south Tyrol, Italy.
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  • The church at Colfosco surrounded by Dolomites mountains, south Tyrol, Italy.
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  • The church at Colfosco surrounded by Dolomites mountains, south Tyrol, Italy.
    colfosco_italy02-18-07-2015.jpg
  • With the highest peaks in Slovenia in the distance a family admire the view of the highest peaks in the Slovenian Julian Alps, on 22nd June 2018, in Trenta, Triglav National Park, Slovenia. Beyond are the mountains, Kreiski 2050m, Pihavec 2419m, Dolina Zadnjica and Triglav 2864m.
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  • With the highest peaks in Slovenia in the distance a family admire the view of the highest peaks in the Slovenian Julian Alps, on 22nd June 2018, in Trenta, Triglav National Park, Slovenia. Beyond are the mountains, Kreiski 2050m, Pihavec 2419m, Dolina Zadnjica and Triglav 2864m.
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  • The Soca River amid some of the highest peaks in Slovenia in the Triglavski Narodni Park, on 22nd June 2018, in Trenta, Triglav National Park, Slovenia. Nearby mountains are Kreiski 2050m, Pihavec 2419m, Dolina Zadnjica and Triglav 2864m.
    slovenia-214-22-06-2018.jpg
  • With the highest peaks in Slovenia in the distance a family admire the view of the highest peaks in the Slovenian Julian Alps, on 22nd June 2018, in Trenta, Triglav National Park, Slovenia. Beyond are the mountains, Kreiski 2050m, Pihavec 2419m, Dolina Zadnjica and Triglav 2864m.
    slovenia-215-22-06-2018.jpg
  • With the highest peaks in Slovenia in the distance a family admire the view of the highest peaks in the Slovenian Julian Alps, on 22nd June 2018, in Trenta, Triglav National Park, Slovenia. Beyond are the mountains, Kreiski 2050m, Pihavec 2419m, Dolina Zadnjica and Triglav 2864m.
    slovenia-216-22-06-2018.jpg
  • Hamlet's chapel with presence of huge Dolomites mountains of the Puez Geisler range in the south Tyrol, Italy.
    puez_geisler_park03-16-07-2015.jpg
  • The church at Colfosco surrounded by Dolomites mountains, south Tyrol, Italy.
    colfosco_italy03-18-07-2015.jpg
  • The timbers of healthy, felled spruce trees await collection in Dolina Chocholowska a hiking route in the Polish Tatra mountains, on 17th September 2019, near Zakopane, Malopolska, Poland. In this region of southern Poland however, the European spruce beetle (Ips typographus) is one of 116 bark beetles species in Poland which is killing thousands of spruces. The insect's population can grow rapidly via wind and snow etc. which eventually leaves a gap in the landscape, thereby changing the forest floor's ecology.
    poland-94-17-09-2019.jpg
  • The timbers of healthy, felled spruce trees await collection in Dolina Chocholowska a hiking route in the Polish Tatra mountains, on 17th September 2019, near Zakopane, Malopolska, Poland. In this region of southern Poland however, the European spruce beetle (Ips typographus) is one of 116 bark beetles species in Poland which is killing thousands of spruces. The insect's population can grow rapidly via wind and snow etc. which eventually leaves a gap in the landscape, thereby changing the forest floor's ecology.
    poland-93-17-09-2019.jpg
  • The timbers of healthy, felled spruce trees await collection in Dolina Chocholowska a hiking route in the Polish Tatra mountains, on 17th September 2019, near Zakopane, Malopolska, Poland. In this region of southern Poland however, the European spruce beetle (Ips typographus) is one of 116 bark beetles species in Poland which is killing thousands of spruces. The insect's population can grow rapidly via wind and snow etc. which eventually leaves a gap in the landscape, thereby changing the forest floor's ecology.
    poland-92-17-09-2019.jpg
  • The timbers of healthy, felled spruce trees await collection in Dolina Chocholowska a hiking route in the Polish Tatra mountains, on 17th September 2019, near Zakopane, Malopolska, Poland. In this region of southern Poland however, the European spruce beetle (Ips typographus) is one of 116 bark beetles species in Poland which is killing thousands of spruces. The insect's population can grow rapidly via wind and snow etc. which eventually leaves a gap in the landscape, thereby changing the forest floor's ecology.
    poland-89-17-09-2019.jpg
  • The timbers of healthy, felled spruce trees await collection in Dolina Chocholowska a hiking route in the Polish Tatra mountains, on 17th September 2019, near Zakopane, Malopolska, Poland. In this region of southern Poland however, the European spruce beetle (Ips typographus) is one of 116 bark beetles species in Poland which is killing thousands of spruces. The insect's population can grow rapidly via wind and snow etc. which eventually leaves a gap in the landscape, thereby changing the forest floor's ecology.
    poland-87-17-09-2019.jpg
  • An aerial landscape of new housing that is overlooked by the Tatra mountains in the Polish town of Koscielisko, on 16th September 2019, near Zakopane, Malopolska, Poland. Local wealth has encouraged tourism apartments and short-stay properties in the Zakopane and Tatra National Park region, a very popular outdoor activity destination for city-dwelling Poles but at the cost of the local environment and landscape.
    poland-14-16-09-2019.jpg
  • A walker emerges into sunlight in the Triglavski Narodni Park in the Slovenian Julian Alps, on 22nd June 2018, in Trenta, Triglav National Park, Slovenia. Nearby mountains are Kreiski 2050m, Pihavec 2419m, Dolina Zadnjica and Triglav 2864m.
    slovenia-220-22-06-2018.jpg
  • Remote chapel beneath Dolomites mountains, south-west of Bolzano, South Tyrol northern Italy.
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  • Remote chapel beneath Dolomites mountains, south-west of Bolzano, South Tyrol northern Italy.
    appiano_italy32-12-07-2015.jpg
  • The timbers of healthy, felled spruce trees await collection in Dolina Chocholowska a hiking route in the Polish Tatra mountains, on 17th September 2019, near Zakopane, Malopolska, Poland. In this region of southern Poland however, the European spruce beetle (Ips typographus) is one of 116 bark beetles species in Poland which is killing thousands of spruces. The insect's population can grow rapidly via wind and snow etc. which eventually leaves a gap in the landscape, thereby changing the forest floor's ecology.
    poland-91-17-09-2019.jpg
  • The timbers of healthy, felled spruce trees await collection in Dolina Chocholowska a hiking route in the Polish Tatra mountains, on 17th September 2019, near Zakopane, Malopolska, Poland. In this region of southern Poland however, the European spruce beetle (Ips typographus) is one of 116 bark beetles species in Poland which is killing thousands of spruces. The insect's population can grow rapidly via wind and snow etc. which eventually leaves a gap in the landscape, thereby changing the forest floor's ecology.
    poland-90-17-09-2019.jpg
  • With the nuclear power station of Trawsfynydd seen in the distance, houses in the southern part of Blaenau Ffestiniog, on 3rd October 2021, in Blaenau Ffestiniog, Gwynedd, Wales. The derelict slate mines around Blaenau Ffestiniog in north Wales were awarded UNESCO World Heritage status in 2021. The industry’s heyday was the 1890s when the Welsh slate industry employed approximately 17,000 workers, producing almost 500,000 tonnes of slate a year, around a third of all roofing slate used in the world in the late 19th century. Only 10% of slate was ever of good enough quality and the surrounding mountains now have slate waste and the ruined remains of machinery, workshops and shelters have changed the landscape for square miles.
    blaenau_ffestiniog-51-03-10-2021.jpg
  • Timber stocks ready for new housing in the southern Polish mountains, on 16th September 2019, Koscielisko, Zakopane, Malopolska, Poland. Local wealth has encouraged tourism apartments and short-stay properties in the Zakopane and Tatra National Park region, a very popular outdoor activity destination for city-dwelling Poles.
    poland-29-16-09-2019.jpg
  • With Lake Bled and distant mountains of the Slovenian Alps and Austria further away, local farmer rakes grass on a hillside meadow, on 18th June 2018, in Kupljenik, Slovenia
    slovenia-29-18-06-2018.jpg
  • High in the mountains is a lone tree stands as testament to the deforestation problem in the Himalayas, wood used for tourist showers. Communities here partly-depend on the agriculture of rice-growing but also on the passing tourist trade. Western trekkers from all over the world walk through these tiny communities on their way up the series of climbing trails of the Annapurna Conservation Sanctuary circuit, a sometimes rigorous walk from the low hills of Pokhara to the higher altitudes of Annapurna, the (26,000 feet (8,000 metre) peak. To be greeted by so much choice is the most rewarding experience and the offer of hot showers is about the best reward for so much exertion.
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  • A group of young Nepali children stand on the terrace of a small hut where they live in the village of Rip in the Gorkha district of central Nepal, one of the 75 districts of modern Nepal. The kids gaze into many directions while two village elders attend to domestic chores in the dirt. Beyond them, we see snow capped peaks of Himalayan mountains. Gorkha has lent its name to the Gurkha soldier, from where young teenage boys are typically recruited for service into the British army, a tradition that goes back to the Indian Mutiny of 1857
    nepal_rural02-16-01-1997.jpg
  • A crofter's cottage sits isolated in a deserted plain at Altnafeadh in Glencoe region, Scottish Highland Mountains.
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  • A slate mine track descends towards the town of Blaenau Ffestiniog, on 5th October 2021, in Blaenau Ffestiniog, Gwynedd, Wales. The derelict slate mines around Blaenau Ffestiniog in north Wales were awarded UNESCO World Heritage status in 2021. The industry’s heyday was the 1890s when the Welsh slate industry employed approximately 17,000 workers, producing almost 500,000 tonnes of slate a year, around a third of all roofing slate used in the world in the late 19th century. Only 10% of slate was ever of good enough quality and the surrounding mountains now have slate waste and the ruined remains of machinery, workshops and shelters have changed the landscape for square miles.
    blaenau_ffestiniog-68-05-10-2021.jpg
  • A slate mine track descends towards the town of Blaenau Ffestiniog, on 5th October 2021, in Blaenau Ffestiniog, Gwynedd, Wales. The derelict slate mines around Blaenau Ffestiniog in north Wales were awarded UNESCO World Heritage status in 2021. The industry’s heyday was the 1890s when the Welsh slate industry employed approximately 17,000 workers, producing almost 500,000 tonnes of slate a year, around a third of all roofing slate used in the world in the late 19th century. Only 10% of slate was ever of good enough quality and the surrounding mountains now have slate waste and the ruined remains of machinery, workshops and shelters have changed the landscape for square miles.
    blaenau_ffestiniog-67-05-10-2021.jpg
  • A slate mine track descends towards the town of Blaenau Ffestiniog, on 5th October 2021, in Blaenau Ffestiniog, Gwynedd, Wales. The derelict slate mines around Blaenau Ffestiniog in north Wales were awarded UNESCO World Heritage status in 2021. The industry’s heyday was the 1890s when the Welsh slate industry employed approximately 17,000 workers, producing almost 500,000 tonnes of slate a year, around a third of all roofing slate used in the world in the late 19th century. Only 10% of slate was ever of good enough quality and the surrounding mountains now have slate waste and the ruined remains of machinery, workshops and shelters have changed the landscape for square miles.
    blaenau_ffestiniog-66-05-10-2021.jpg
  • An electricity pylon and conductors stand above the Welsh town of Blaenau Ffestiniog, on 2nd October 2021, in Blaenau Ffestiniog, Gwynedd, Wales. The derelict slate mines around Blaenau Ffestiniog in north Wales were awarded UNESCO World Heritage status in 2021. The industry’s heyday was the 1890s when the Welsh slate industry employed approximately 17,000 workers, producing almost 500,000 tonnes of slate a year, around a third of all roofing slate used in the world in the late 19th century. Only 10% of slate was ever of good enough quality and the surrounding mountains now have slate waste and the ruined remains of machinery, workshops and shelters have changed the landscape for square miles.
    blaenau_ffestiniog-63-02-10-2021.jpg
  • An electricity pylon and conductors stand above the Welsh town of Blaenau Ffestiniog, on 2nd October 2021, in Blaenau Ffestiniog, Gwynedd, Wales. The derelict slate mines around Blaenau Ffestiniog in north Wales were awarded UNESCO World Heritage status in 2021. The industry’s heyday was the 1890s when the Welsh slate industry employed approximately 17,000 workers, producing almost 500,000 tonnes of slate a year, around a third of all roofing slate used in the world in the late 19th century. Only 10% of slate was ever of good enough quality and the surrounding mountains now have slate waste and the ruined remains of machinery, workshops and shelters have changed the landscape for square miles.
    blaenau_ffestiniog-62-02-10-2021.jpg
  • An aerial view of houses in the industrial town of Blaenau Ffestiniog, on 3rd October 2021, in Blaenau Ffestiniog, Gwynedd, Wales. The derelict slate mines around Blaenau Ffestiniog in north Wales were awarded UNESCO World Heritage status in 2021. The industry’s heyday was the 1890s when the Welsh slate industry employed approximately 17,000 workers, producing almost 500,000 tonnes of slate a year, around a third of all roofing slate used in the world in the late 19th century. Only 10% of slate was ever of good enough quality and the surrounding mountains now have slate waste and the ruined remains of machinery, workshops and shelters have changed the landscape for square miles.
    blaenau_ffestiniog-53-03-10-2021.jpg
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