Tagged: mountain culture

Love Letters From Scotland

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Love Letters on Scotland’s Isle of Skye.

Feel like some love from Scotland’s Isle of Skye?  We do – Scottish Love Letters photography art prints from Landscape365.

Isle of Skye-based photographers Andrew and Rosie Woodhouse, aka Landscape365, have created this sweet way to tell your loved ones you care.

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Mountain Village Love

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Courtyard door at Shey.

Walking tour and homestay company Shakti Himalaya has new village houses and trekking and camping options in Ladakh, India.

Called “Little Tibet”, Ladakh is a high-altitude desert in India’s northernmost region primarily accessible to mountain travelers during the summer and fall.

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A Mountain Arts Festival

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An artist painting mountains in Jackson Hole, Wyoming.

Mountain arts festivals can capture hearts and minds.  If you’re traveling or living in Jackson Hole, Wyoming this fall, the resort town will hold its Fall Arts Festival, September 8 to 18, 2011.

The Jackson Hole Fall Arts Festival will be a mash-up of visual, contemporary, culinary, Western, landscape, wildlife and Native American arts.

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Mountain Traveler: Sandy Patch

Mountain Traveler is a series about travelers in the mountains.

Sandy Patch wrote this guest post about his mountain documentary El Último Hielero (The Last Ice Merchant).  He has worked in the film industry in the United States for 10 years.

Since January 2011, he has been in Ecuador to produce three short documentaries and a photography book for his company Cotopaxi Productions.

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Shooting as Baltazar breaks the ice down into uniform blocks on Ecuador’s Chimborazo.

Ecuador’s Chimborazo may not make the list of the top 100 tallest mountains in the world, but because of its proximity to the equator, the 20,700-foot high summit is the closest point on Earth to the sun.

For years, indigenous locals have made their way up this sacred mountain to harvest ice from the fossilized glacier – which they called the ice mine.

At times, 40 ice merchants worked these slopes with pick axes and pry bars. Today, there is only one remaining ice merchant: Baltazar Ushca.

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Mountain Traveler: Mountainfilm

Mountain Traveler is a series about travelers in the mountains.

Mountainfilm wrote this guest post about its “Mountainfilm Inspired Me To…” campaign.

Mountainfilm in Telluride is happening in Telluride, Colorado, May 27-30, 2011.

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Mountainfilm lovers in Telluride, Colorado share how the festival inspired them to take action.

Last week, we previewed some of this year’s Mountainfilm trailers.

Mountainfilm is dedicated to educating and inspiring audiences about issues that matter, cultures worth exploring, environments worth preserving and conversations worth sustaining.

This year, the festival theme is “Awareness Into Action.” Ask anyone that’s been to Mountainfilm, or attended a Mountainfilm on World Tour screening, and you will undoubtedly be told how inspired the viewer was.

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Cool Mountain Art

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Snowflake 2 by Mark Ward.

Alps ski and snowboard company rudechalets is collaborating with Mark Ward for winter 2011.

Artist Mark Ward, whose clients include Red Bull, Nike, Adidas and Burton Snowboards, has been working on rudechalets snowflake series.

Three inter-linked canvases will be reproduced as limited edition signed prints and T-shirts.

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Mount Fuji Artist Honored

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Mount Fuji by Hokusai.

Legendary Japanese artist Hokusai (1760-1849), known for his Mount Fuji views, is celebrated in a new book by Matthi Forrer.

The new book Hokusai is an authoritative and deluxe monograph to be published in December 2010 by Prestel Publishing to mark the 250th anniversary of Hokusai.

Hokusai may be best known for ‘Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji’, a series of prints featuring images of the Japanese landscape.

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