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Offensee / Upper Austria

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Przewalski's horses with Schneeberg in the background

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The Pannonian Basin, or Carpathian Basin, is a large basin in Central Europe. The geomorphological term Pannonian Plain is more widely used for roughly the same region though with a somewhat different sense, with only the lowlands, the plain that remained when the Pliocene Epoch Pannonian Sea dried out.

Przewalski's horse (UK: /ˌpɜːrʒəˈvælskiz/, US: /-ˈvɑːl-/, Polish: [pʂɛˈvalskʲi]) (Equus przewalskii or Equus ferus przewalskii) also called the takhi, Mongolian wild horse or Dzungarian horse, is a rare and endangered horse originally native to the steppes of Central Asia. At one time extinct in the wild, it has been reintroduced to its native habitat since the 1990s in Mongolia at the Khustain Nuruu National Park, Takhin Tal Nature Reserve, and Khomiin Tal, as well as several other locales in Central Asia and Eastern Europe. The taxonomic position is still debated, with some taxonomists treating Przewalski's horse as a species, E. przewalskii, others as a subspecies of wild horse (E. ferus przewalskii) or a feral variety of the domesticated horse (E. f. caballus). It is named after the Russian geographer and explorer Nikołaj Przewalski.

Most extant horses described as "wild", such as the American mustang or the Australian brumby, are instead feral horses descended from domesticated animals that escaped and adapted to life in the wild. Przewalski's horse has long been considered the only remaining non-domesticated wild horse. However, a 2018 DNA study suggested that modern Przewalski's horses may descend from the domesticated horses of the Botai culture.

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.... only bad Clothes

Hochschwab Massif, top of the South Wall, at 2200m

We planned to climb the south wall (~300m) and the weather forecast was nearly perfect. After 1400m ascent to the summit with all the climbing gear and a cosy night in the tent the weather turned bad rapidly. 80km/h wind, temperatures near the the freezing point and light snowfall motivated us to start the long descent to the valley ...
mountaineering at its best ...

Samyang 12mm

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