The Mountains of Montenegro - Walking, hiking and trekking

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• Introduction
• Sample Route
• Maps
• Updates
• Reviews
• Further Reading

'The author describes Montenegro as containing some of the 'wildest, most spectacular and least visited mountains in Europe.' At a glance the photographs reveals a collection of jagged limestone peaks, alpine meadows, lakes and canyons.

The guide describes fifteen routes in seven different areas, with two or three walks in each area. The route descriptions are clear and contain many helpful suggestions as to the location of water and camping spots. The local maps seem to contain many inaccuracies, such as huts and springs that don't exist and routes obliterated by rock fall, venturing on these trails with a map alone seems a recipe for some unforgettable adventures and this guide will undoubtedly repay its cost many times over.

This book is no exception to the high standards of the Cicerone guide series and is of excellent quality. It is well worth the investment if you are looking for something different for your IML log book.'

(AMI news / September 2007)

'All sorts of questions arise at the very idea of visiting Montenegro, the first being where exactly is it? Separated from Serbia a year ago, it is a rough parallelogram squashed between the Adriatic, Bosnia, Serbia and Albania, and containing "some of the wildest, most spectacular and least visited mountains in Europe."

Montenegro has a long, dramatic and complicated history, and Abraham, unusual in a walking guide, provides a 12-page historical appendix. I can't check any of the routes, which vary in length from an hour up to a few days, but from the illustrations they look interesting, and in some cases exciting, in a scenery of glacial cwms and rocky ridges.'

(Irish Mountain Log magazine / Autumn 2007)

'The author describes fifteen circular and point-to-point routes, generally on waymarked trails, with options for further routes identified. He asserts that Montenegro has some of the wildest, most dramatic and least-visited mountains in Europe, and who are we to disagree?

This at present is the only English language guide to walking in Montenegro - and it is a good one. Montenegro is a land of jagged limestone peaks up to 2,500m high, linked by fine ridges, and its gentle valleys are dotted with picturesque lakes. It is just waiting to be discovered.'

(Walking World Ireland / 2008 Annual)

‘This is a hugely welcome and finely presented walking guide to the mountains of a European country not frequented by British tourists. I wish this admirable guidebook had been available in 2003 when I first visited the Prokletije and spent one day in the Grabaje valet blundering about on steep hillsides with no map or information on possible routes.

This is an important book, not just as an attractive and enticing guide but because Montenegro needs visitors to its mountains and valleys to climb, walks, kayak, mountain bike or study the environment, all ‘sustainable visitor activities’ bringing money into the local economy and leaving the mountains still unspoilt.

If you glance at Rudolf Abraham’s book you, too, will want to go there.’

(The Fell and Rock Journal / 2008)