The International Highline Meeting festival seems like
one of the chillest festivals we’ve ever heard of, but it also might be one of
the most terrifying – attendees spend most of their time strung up on
tightropes stretched across the Italian Alps in Monte Piana.
The attendees call themselves “slackers” because of the
slacklines they balance themselves on. This extreme sport differs from
tightrope walking in that the rope has a slightly flattened shaped and has
slack, meaning that it can move side-to-side or bounce.
Besides the fact that the slackers spend a good
part of their days (and nights) on slacklines suspended hundreds of feet above
the Italian dolomite Alps, the meeting has all the trappings of a normal
festival – a kitchen, a bar, and awesome musical jam sessions. Attendees can
also attend a Yoga workshop or take tandem paraglider flights.
Beds are overrated. What
better place to wake up than suspended in a hammock thousands of feet in the
air above the Italian Alps? And if you think sleeping between mountain peaks is
terrifying, try walking on a tightrope between them. That’s exactly what
highliners did earlier this month at the International
Highline Meeting, which took place atop Monte Piana. To live vicariously
through the daredevils and thrillseekers pictured above.
Ah, there’s nothing quite
like lounging in a hammock, the wind whistling through your hair, hundreds of
feet in the air. Hold on… hundreds of feet? That was the scene this year
at the International
Highline Meeting. An event that brings together high altitude
thrill seekers from around the world and took place this time at Monte Piana in
north-eastern Italy.
The attendees call
themselves “slackers” because of the slacklines they balance themselves on.
This extreme sport differs from tightrope walking in that the rope has a
slightly flattened shaped and has slack, meaning that it can move side-to-side
or bounce. Besides the fact that the slackers spend a good part of their days
their days and nights on slacklines suspended hundreds of feet above the
Italian dolomite Alps, the meeting has all the trappings of a normal festival —
a kitchen, a bar, and awesome musical jam sessions. Attendees can also attend a
Yoga workshop or take tandem para glider flights.
Monte Piana is one of the
most beautiful site to visit in the Dolomites, with its special shape and
position that offers a spectacular 360 degrees view towards the most famous
mountains around Auronzo di Cadore, Cortina d’Ampezzo and “Sextner Dolomiten” —
Tre Cime di Lavaredo, Paterno, Cadini di Misurina, Sorapiss, Cristallo, Croda
Rossa ecc. — and over the Lake of Misurina at its feet. Monte Piana is also a
special site of memory and history of the tragic events of last century: the
World War fought on the Dolomites
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