Valea Albă (White Valley) - Bucegi mountains

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My first real climb with rope and harness, summer of 1991. I remember that the valley still had a lot of old snow.

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yatsek

Fine Vintage Photo

Voted 10/10

Ha ha - it was just a couple of years after I first crossed the Iron Curtain (which was about to fall), went to a shop selling climbing gear and bought 2 (two) meters of rope and a sleeping mat (I was a high school teacher then and earned about 20 dollars per month). :)

Posted Jan 20, 2010 5:34 pm


	andreeacorodeanu	Re: Fine Vintage Photo
	Hasn't voted	Thank you Yatsek! :) I remember so many nice moments from then even was hard cause I didnt had any gear or money but I was so young and with so many dreams.
		Posted Jan 21, 2010 1:13 am


	yatsek	Re: Fine Vintage Photo
	Voted 10/10	If you don't mind my asking:) - how old were you here in this picture?
		Posted Jan 21, 2010 4:06 am


	andreeacorodeanu	Re: Fine Vintage Photo
	Hasn't voted	I dont mind :). I had just 13 years old... I was just a kid living my first experience in the mountain, seeing it with different eyes. Till then I done just some easy trekks with my family and one or two with friends.
		Posted Jan 21, 2010 4:12 am


	yatsek	Re: Fine Vintage Photo
	Voted 10/10	That's a pretty early start. Any other climbers in your family?
		Posted Jan 21, 2010 2:30 pm


	andreeacorodeanu	Re: Fine Vintage Photo
	Hasn't voted	Well my father liked mountains a lot and hiked something not too much but my uncle he climb a lot in our mountains when he was young. Even my grandfather (I didnt met him, he died pretty young) he done many crazy things, he liked adventure and travels. Well my uncle took me a few times with all the family but I start seriously by my self. Maybe is genetic????????????
		Posted Jan 22, 2010 3:51 am


	yatsek	Re: Fine Vintage Photo
	Voted 10/10	I'm pretty sure it is, seriously.
		Posted Jan 22, 2010 4:24 am


	lcarreau	Re: Fine Vintage Photo
	Voted 10/10	This is a really nice picture. Nobody in my family were climbers, or even very serious hikers. I was the black sheep of my family. I guess I could have "went places," if I had migrated to the East, but I also had very little money when I was growing up. Great picture, Andreea !!!
		Posted Mar 17, 2010 6:19 pm


	andreeacorodeanu	Re: Fine Vintage Photo
	Hasn't voted	Thank you so much!!!!!!!!!!!!!
		Posted Mar 17, 2010 6:38 pm

Harryk

nice pic

Hasn't voted

It's so nice to hear your story about how you started. I didn't start climbing intil I was 19 but the seeds were sown when father took me to Europe and the Alps when I was 11. I still remember wanting to go to the top even then. My father was not athletic or outdoorsy at all, all the outdoor things I did on my own. Sounds like you caught the bug early and are still at it.

Posted Oct 26, 2012 3:35 pm


	andreeacorodeanu	Re: nice pic
	Hasn't voted	Thank you Harry for telling me your story! I choosed it by myself also :)! Thanks a lot for your nice comment and btw I love your "Climbing in the eighties" album :)!!!!!! My best, Andreea
		Posted Oct 27, 2012 12:19 pm