High Tatra

Two young Polish climbers have fallen to their deaths in Slovakia’s High Tatra mountains amid high winds and heavy snow, the local rescue service said.

It is the only UK place to feature - at number six - in the new Lonely Planet list for international travellers this summer, which is headed by the High Tatra mountains in Slovakia.

I went trekking in Slovakia’s High Tatra mountains, staying in small basic cabins every night.

Fifteen sculptors worked three weeks to shape 90 tonnes of ice into a gothic-style dome that opened to visitors last week in the High Tatra mountains of Slovakia.

World Cup races are often on natural boulder-strewn rivers and Martikan, who is still coached by his father Jozef, often returns to the high Tatra to find the real white water.