High Tatras

The High Tatras or High Tatra Mountains (Slovak: Vysoké Tatry; Polish: Tatry Wysokie; Rusyn: Высокі Татри, Vysoki Tatry; German: Hohe Tatra; Hungarian: Magas-Tátra), are a mountain range along the border of northern Slovakia in the Prešov Region, and southern Poland in the Lesser Poland Voivodeship.

The High Tatras, having 29 peaks over 2,500 metres (8,200 ft) AMSL are, with the Southern Carpathians, the only mountain ranges with an alpine character and habitats in the entire 1,200 kilometres (750 mi) length of the Carpathian Mountains system.

The contiguous parks protect UNESCO's trans-border Tatra biosphere reserve.

[1] Many rare and endemic animals and plant species are native to the High Tatras.

Ski resorts include Štrbské pleso, Starý Smokovec and Tatranská Lomnica in Slovakia, and Zakopane in Poland.

Morskie Oko ("Sea Eye"), the largest lake in the Tatra mountains, is found at an elevation of 1,395m and is surrounded by peaks that rise about 1,000m above it.
A young Tatra chamois
The alpine character of the High Tatras attracts mountaineers .
Kriváň (2,495 metres), considered to be the symbol of Slovakia
Mountain lakes of Czarny Staw pod Rysami and Morskie Oko seen from Rysy .
Veľké Žabie pleso (Mengusovské) lake in Žabia Valley
Mountain huts are common in the High Tatras, this one is halfway up Lomnický štít .
1922 postcard of tourists in the High Tatras.