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28 galleriesClick to open any Alps gallery by Tom Dempsey. First are concise galleries of image "favorites", followed by extended galleries, including: Switzerland (Berner Oberland, Engadine, Haute Route), France (Chamonix, Mont Blanc, High Route), Italy (Dolomites and nearby Venice), and Slovenia (Julian Alps).
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2 galleriesClick to open any Plitvice Lakes gallery by Tom Dempsey. Plitvice Lakes National Park (Nacionalni park Plitvicka jezera, in Croatia) was founded in 1949 and is honored by UNESCO as World Heritage Site. Waters flowing over limestone, dolomite, and chalk in this karstic landscape have, over thousands of years, deposited travertine barriers, creating natural dams, beautiful emerald lakes and waterfalls. Warming conditions after the last Ice Age (less than 12,000 years ago) allowed the natural dams to form from tufa (calcium carbonate) and chalk depositing in layers, bound by plants. Plitvicka Jezera is a municipality of Lika-Senj County, in the Republic of Croatia, Europe.
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3 galleriesClick to open any gallery of France by Tom Dempsey. - Hike the Haute Route through the Alps from Chamonix-Mont-Blanc to Zermatt, Switzerland. - The coastal island church of Mont Saint-Michel is one of the most visited sights in France.
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6 galleriesClick to open any Greece gallery by Tom Dempsey. Enjoy whitewashed villages perched high above the Aegean Sea on the rim of the active volcano of Santorini island (Thira or Thera). Hike in Zagori, Vikos Gorge, and the north Pindus mountains, including a triple arch stone bridge near Kipi. Admire icons of ancient Greece at the Acropolis (Parthenon, Erechtheion) and museums in Athens. The medieval Greek Orthodox Monasteries of Meteora have stood the tests of time perched atop impressive pinnacles. Hike Mount Olympus via overnight hut. On the island of Crete, learn Minoan history at Knossos (at Heraklion), hike Samaria Gorge, and enjoy wild aromatic herb gardens on the coast.
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2 imagesSeen through a jet window, a vast ice sheet stretches across Greenland, the world's largest island. This ice cap (Sermersuaq in Greenlandic) contains 10 percent of the world's fresh water, plus atmospheric particles which scientists can use to gain an insight into the climate of both Greenland and the Earth going back some 250,000 years. Scientists report accelerated melting since the new millennium, with a net loss of ice mass. If the entire ice sheet melted, the world's oceans would rise by 6-7 meters (20-23 feet). Greenland's huge ice sheet is only second in size to the Antarctic Ice Sheet. Greenland lies between the Arctic and Atlantic Oceans, east of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. While it is physiographically part of the North American continent, for more than a thousand years Greenland has been politically and culturally associated with Europe (the colonial powers of Norway and Denmark, plus the nearby island of Iceland). In 2008, the people of Greenland passed a referendum making it an autonomous country within the Danish Realm. With a population of about 56,480 in 2013, it is the least densely populated country in the world. (The continent of Australia is larger but isn't considered an island.)
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11 galleriesClick to open any photo gallery of Venice and the Dolomites, by Tom Dempsey: Venice, Saint Mark's Square (San Marco Piazza), Rialto, gondolas, Murano, Burano, and Torcello. Dolomites mountain photos include: Cortina d'Ampezzo, Sesto Group, Corvara in Badia, Val Gardena, Val di Funes, Puez-Geisler (Odle) Park, Castelrotto, Brenta Group, Marmolada, Passo Pordoi, Sella Group, Bindelweg/Viel del Pan trail, Rosengarten/Catinaccio Group, Bolzano, Iceman (Ötzi), Pala Group/Pale di San Martino, Monte Civetta, Monte Pelmo, Alleghe Village, and more.
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5 galleriesClick to open any Norway gallery by Tom Dempsey. View Norway history, stave churches, culture, Nordland, Lofoten islands, southern and western fjordland, and Jotunheim mountains (Home of the Giants).
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3 galleriesClick to open any Slovenia gallery by Tom Dempsey. Photos include: Julian Alps, Lake Bled (Blejsko jezero), Bled Castle, Vintgar Gorge, Skocjan Caves (Skocjanske jame) Regional Park, Triglav National Park (Triglavski narodni park/TNP), Pericnik Waterfall, Vrata and Krma valleys, Tolmin gorges (Tolminska korita), Veliki Kozjak Waterfall, Predjama Castle.
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12 galleriesClick to open any Switzerland gallery by Tom Dempsey. Images include: Berner Oberland, Valais canton (Zermatt, Fiesch, Eggishorn, Aletsch Glacier, Lötschental / Loetschental), Engadine, the Haute Route (from Chamonix, France, to Zermatt), Appenzell, Schaffhausen, Rhine Falls, and Stein am Rhein.
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2 galleriesThe following galleries from England & Scotland in the United Kingdom were shot by Tom Dempsey on a 34-day trip 2017 July 20-August 22. This includes our England Coast to Coast (CtoC) hike on commission with Wilderness Travel, July 23 - August 5, 2017 plus much more.