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‘If you love adventure but not tourists’: readers’ favourite wild places in Europe

An ibex in the Sella Nevea mountains, Italy, close to the border with Slovenia.
An ibex in the Julian Alps near Sella Nevea, Italy, close to the border with Slovenia. Photograph: Matjaz Corel/Alamy

Italy’s lessser known peaks

The Julian Alps are mostly in Slovenia, but I have gone on many trips to the little known Italian portion of this mountain range to visit old friends in the ski town Sella Nevea. The scenery is awesome: pointed white, limestone peaks above deep and mysterious pine-forested valleys. The books of mountaineer Julius Kugy romantically describe this large wilderness, the obscurity of which amazes me. Nature is abundant with various large mammals, bird life and flora. If you love alpine adventure but don’t like tourists then seek it out, there’s nobody there!
Paul

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