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About the project
Undoubtedly most of you have
already heard about the
The Seven
Summits project. This project The Twelve Summits has some similar characteristics,
but essentially it is completely different. Similarities include the names
and the fact that they both concern mountain climbing and alpine hiking. That’s all.
Now what is the
idea of The Twelve Summits?
 The
project The Twelve Summits covers
ascents of the highest mountains of the
European Union countries that are higher than 2000 m.
These countries are: Austria, Bulgaria, France, Germany, Greece, Italy,
Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain and Sweden, twelve countries
together. The fact that France and Italy share the highest mountain,
surely didn’t escape your notice. So it means The Twelve Summits includes
only eleven mountains in twelve countries. This is one more similarity with The Seven Summits, they are
sometimes eight.
Why were
just these criteria of selection chosen? You can find the answers to this
and similar questions and other details about the birth of the project on
the HISTORY page.
Top sport achievements are
not the core goal of the project. We consider it as a
project focused on tourists getting to know the European countries, though with
a certain sport value. Via our journeys, aimed at the mountain ascents, we
would like to get to know better the nature, the culture and history of this one big
community we belong to. We tried to formulate this idea in the motto of
the project:
“The journey itself can be
the destination”. I
personally
believe the better we understand
each
other the more solid the integration of Europe.
12th
March 2009
Zdenek
Dratovsky
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