Category: Outdoor activities

Mountaineering is a popular recreational activity that entails pleasure in conquering peaks, the beauty of mountainous areas, overcoming difficulty with others because usually hikers are in the group. As the start date of hiking is taken August 8, 1786 when French physician Michel Gabriel Paccard and guide Jacques Balmat climbed to the top of Mont Blanc (4,810 m). This rise was prompted by the Swiss scientist Horace-Bénédict de Saussure. It was in the Alps that the first hiking tours of the unspoiled peaks were organized, with the presence of local guides. While these tour guides have a long tradition, there are major changes in commercial hiking today. Mountains and mountaineering in Serbia In geomorphological terms, Serbia is mostly a mountainous country, both in terms of age, way of setting, geological structure, routes of delivery and forms of relief, the mountains are very diverse. According to the way of the mountain, the mountains are: Rodopske (old mound, flowing from the left and right sides of the South and the Great Morava, such as the Besna kobila, Dukat, Čemernik, Kukavica, Vidojevica, Jastrebac and others), the Carpathian- , are occupied by the eastern part of Serbia: Homoljske planine, Beljanica, Kučaj, Miroč, Deli Jovan, Rtanj, Ozren, Devica, Suva, Stara planina), Dinarske (they consist of several mountain units, they are younger and are more difficult to walk, belong to them: Tara , Zlatibor, Zlatar, Golija, Kopaonik, Goc, Avala, Kosmaj, Bukulja, Rudnik, Povlen, Maljen, Cer and others). The first hiking society in the territory of the former Yugoslavia was founded in 1874 in Zagreb. In Serbia, the first mountain visitors were also scientists, and the most prominent among them was Josip Pancic, who climbed to a number of mountains in Serbia, Montenegro and Bosnia, extending the flora of those mountains. He led his students with him, many of whom later were mountaineering organizations in Serbia. With Pancic he was a famous geographer Jovan Cvijic. Organized hiking in Serbia begins in 1901, when the Serbian Mountaineering Society was founded with the first president, Jovan Žujović. Mountaineering clubs and clubs are organized in our country