Congratulations to Rudolf Abraham whose guide to The Mountains of Montenegro has just been awarded the Outdoor Writers Guild Award for the Best Guidebook of 2007.
Rudolf lives in London where his day job as a scholar of Islamic Art, working for one of the most prestigious collections in the world. But his other love is exploring wild places. Montenegro is his second guide after Croatia, and he is planning new guides to Chile and Turkey.
His guide to Montenegro is the only English-language guide to the mountains, indeed probably the only one in any language other than serbo-croat. The book covers the range of walking and trekking opportunities in Montenegro and gives material for several weeks of walking.
From the book:
‘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.
Montenegro (or more correctly Crna gora, ‘black mountain’) lies on the southern Adriatic coast, sandwiched between Croatia, Bosnia-Hercegovina, Serbia and Albania; and within its borders are some of the wildest, most spectacular, and least visited mountains in Europe.
More on Rudolf:
Rudolf Abraham grew up in England and New Zealand, and has travelled extensively in Turkey, the Caucasus, Iran and Central Asia. During these travels he has walked and climbed in the Karakoram, the Tien Shan, Ladakh and the mountains of easternTurkey. He lived in Croatia from 1999 to 2001, and has made numerous trips into the mountains of Croatia, Montenegro and Slovenia. Rudolf studied photography and art history, and completed an MA at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London. He is the author of Cicerone’s Walking in Croatia, and has also written a book on Islamic art and architecture, and contributed introductions to books on Central Asia, Armenia and Afghanistan.
