#gotthard pass

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(by Samuel Ferrara)| Switzerland

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After we came back from our weekend climbing with E we spent a couple of days at home, sorting out life admin, cleaning and tidying the remains of a few pretty mental weeks, and just relaxing and recovering a bit. Then we set off on a little impromptu cycle tour - since we don't have a car at the moment we haven't gotten around to much outdoor climbing this year, which I was sad about, so we decided to take climbing gear and see how it goes. The plan was to cycle to the top of the gotthart pass on the first day, which, from home, means 85 miles with 2,600+ m of ascent and very little descent, easily my biggest day of cycling to date. With weight. Well, it was a bit of a brave plan, so it's maybe not surprising that we didn't quite make it 🤣 I felt pretty good for most of it but started to bonk pretty hard about 500m up the final pass. We decided to go to andermatt instead, a town 600m below the top of the pass with a decent campsite we've stayed in before. The last 500m up to andermatt were ROUGH but we made it! So that was about 80 miles with 2,000m of ascent, which still amounted to my biggest day of cycling yet lol.

Had the best sleep of my life in the campsite and got up early ish the next day to continue. Got food for 4 days in the supermarket then did the final 600m over 6 miles to the top of the pass. Legs felt dead but I was so psyched to make the top! It was pretty chilly up there in the wind but lovely sunshine at least. We ventured out looking for the climbing and found an awesome wild camping spot basically right at the bottom of the wall, where we ended up staying two nights.

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I was captivated by the painting of the battle of the Gotthard Pass posted by Tairin in her Suvorov article. I found another painting of it (I don’t know who painted it). Here, the bridge is just a piece of wood. What was it in 1799? 

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Now I’ve found another one at the Hermitage Museum:

This one’s by Vasily Surikov

Bridge with soldiers crossing by Turner

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Passo del san Gottardo - La strada del Gottardo nella Val Tremola

Col du Gotthard - Route du Gotthard dans le Val Tremola

Gotthardpass - Die Gotthardstrasse im Tremolatal

Gotthard Pass - The Gotthard road descending the Tremola Valley

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Gotthard Pass Switzerland

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I've been traveling for some time...

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Gotthard Pass

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Original caption:

Switzerland 4K: Gotthard Pass was shot in the heart of the Swiss Alps atop one of the most famous, and most important mountain passes in Europe. Shot over 6 months travelling through amazing Swiss landscapes, sleeping (or not) under the stars, hiking on mountains and exploring the rugged terrain.

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Equipment used: Canon 5Ds, Canon EOS 6D, Rokinon 14mm f/2.8, Canon 16-15mm f/4L IS USM, Tamron 45mm f/1.8, Canon 70-300 f/4.5-5.6 IS II USM Dynamic Perception NMX Stage One PLUS, eMotimo Spectrum, Timelapse+ VIEW Intervelometer, TriggerTrap

Processing and editing was completed in Lightroom, LRTimelapse, After Effects and Premiere Pro.

All footage is available for licensing. If you would like to licence any of my clips, feature this video in any news media, or talk about a project you have in mind please contact me at: [email protected], or check out my website: samferrara.ch