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This imprint was last updated on July 2, 2022.

The owner of this website is:

Janemac Editing OÜ OÜ
Narva mnt 5
Tallinn 10117
Estonia
Estonia
Email: ofni.yakcamenaj@enaj
Phone number: 0033678556157
VAT ID: EE102045390

The legal representative(s) of Janemac Editing OÜ OÜ:

Jane Mackay

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1.1 We are registered at Estonia under the license or registration number:

14418453

We are not willing or obliged to participate in dispute resolution procedures before a consumer arbitration board.

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Why are there photos of mountain scenes on this website?

In my mid-forties, with no evident provocation, as a lifelong sea-level dweller I suddenly found myself with an obsessive desire to be in the mountains. To live in the mountains, to breathe the mountains, to meld with the mountains. Since then I've been exploring ever upwards, mostly in the Orobie mountains of Italy, and also in Serbia, Slovenia, Croatia, Greece, Switzerland, and elsewhere.

Grecian trail companions

During lockdown 2020 this desire to be in the mountains expanded into the desire to move swiftly and self-sufficiently through mountainous terrain, and so at the age of just-about-50, as a lifelong non-athlete I started running. This expanded further into structured training following the Uphill Athlete methodology.

In September 2021, curious and interested to test the effect of the training and my body's actual capacity, I did a race in the Swiss Alps: 32 km and a cumulative 2200 m of altitude gain (and spectacular scenery!).

A journey of (self-) discovery

Apart from a few rock and ice climbs with an alpine guide, all my mountain explorations have been made alone. Everything was new to me: rock, snow, scree, ice — all the different types of terrain and how different they were underfoot (and under-hand) in terms of stability and grip.

Each exploration upwards, I added a big bit or a little bit to my accumulating store of understanding and experience. Being alone, I proceeded slowly, cautiously, and still I made mistakes, got myself into and out of some tricky situations, and learnt from them. Slowly, slowly, my risk tolerance and confidence grew and expanded to include more and different types of terrain and challenges — mental as much as physical.

Pizzo Coca 3050 m

The journey continues.

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