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Route 16 Kotao

Route 17 Ropojana valley and jezero

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Appendix A Mountain areas, major peaks and long-distance routes

Appendix B Further reading

Appendix C Useful contacts

Appendix D Language notes and glossary

Appendix E History of Montenegro

Kučka krajina and Bukumirsko jezero (Route 12)

ROUTE SUMMARY TABLE

The ridge on Međed, Durmitor (Route 6)

INTRODUCTION

The small town of Virpazar, gateway to Lake Skadar National Park (Route 5)

Few parts of Europe are so little known as the countries lying between the Danube and the northern frontier of Greece.

Sir J Gardner Wilkinson, Dalmatia and Montenegro (London, 1848)

‘Ljepši od Alpa’ – ‘more beautiful than the Alps’. This description of Montenegro’s mountains was given to me by a Croatian climber, in the most congenial setting of a wedding, just over the Slovenian border. And it was these words, together with a postcard of improbably sheer-sided peaks in Durmitor, the country’s best-known mountain area, which first drew me to Montenegro, while living in Zagreb between 1999 and 2001.