60.20 Bulgaria: Bansko: Banderitsa ski slope, providing a different perspective of the world and trying for a little self-understanding.
The world looks different from height, usually far more dramatic, sometimes a little scary, other times very scary and invariable more attractive than from level positions. By world, perhaps it more accurate to say views create different impressions, not unlike humans, the further away the more attractive. However, the implication is the higher up the more attractive rather than the further way horizontally or laterally speaking. From height, one gains a better impression because most of the time there is little to obscure the view while allowing the eye-and-brain to absorb a fuller picture or perspective, a clearer defined subject. The following photographs illustrate the concept mentioned above as they were taken on a very steep ski slope. The going was rough; after all it's never the intention to make such slopes comfortable for hikers or to encourage people to view them as nice alternatives to chairlifts. Obviously, when in use, they are covered in snow and t...