Legendary Blyznytsa summits (1881 m)

Legend has it that there were twins who fell in love with the same girl, and she said to them: “The one of you will become my husband who manages to bring me an edelweiss, a rare flower growing in the distant mountains. The brothers were advised by an old man to climb up until they reached an airy, rocky cliff where a solitary edelweiss flower grew. They parted and started to climb via different routes. Unfortunately, just as they touched the flower with their fingers, both at the same moment, the cliff split and fell apart burying both brothers. And since that time people have called this twin-peaked mountain Blyznytsa, Близниця (UA), Bliznica (CS), Ikerhavas (HU).

Northeastern Carpathians

Svydovets

Transcarpathia

UKRAINE

January 2009