As night falls, an ethereal mist creeps over a forest cover as old as the world itself. The primeval howl of a wolf echoes across the mountains, followed by another and yet another wolf. Down in the valley, a wisent turns swiftly, a deer runs off a little and a beaver swims into its hiding place....
It's the beginning of May. The roaring torrent, fed by the melting snow, turns the emerald water of the mountain tarns into white foam. Hundreds of springs of crystal clear water gradually flow through the Tatra wilderness to form one of the last wild rivers in Central Europe.
Over the last few millennia, the European countryside has changed more than we can imagine. We drained wetlands, regulated rivers, cut down or transformed forests, exterminated large animals. And yet, there is one place that hardly changes. The Immortal Forest grows from the rocky soil below...
Like on Noah’s Ark voyaging through the time, the chamois and other arctic like inhabitants have lived in the Tatras for more than ten thousand years. Man is here, in this alpine environment, of rare sight and snow has the mountains in grip for six-month time. As a result, the Tatras are a unique...
