Aerial view of road to mountain Hoverla, Ukraine Carpathian mountains. Aerial view of beautiful Carpathian mountains in summer.
Aerial view of the beautiful landscape in mountains. Carpathian mountains in summer.
Carpathian Mountains are clipping the country’s southwest corner endowing Ukraine with a crinkled region of forested hills, spectacular mountain lakes, fast-flowing rivers and picturesque waterfalls. The Carpathian region in western Ukraine contrasts hugely with the flatness of the steppes in the South East and of the country as well as urbanized territories of central and eastern Ukraine. Here rises mountain Hoverla – Ukraine’s highest peak (2061m).
The Carpathians are a crescent-shaped mountain system that was formed by the same forces that lifted the higher Alps to the west. A mountain range system with an arc shape is roughly 1,500 km long and stretches across the Central and Eastern Europe. The Carpathians go through Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland, Hungary, Ukraine, Serbia, and Romania, making it the second-longest mountain range in Europe. The mountains begin as a range of low hills near Bratislava, Slovakia, reach their highest point in Slovakia’s High Tatras (Gerlachovský peak at 2655 m), and continue arching eastward into Ukraine before turning south and bending through Romania, where they reach another high point (Moldoveanu, 2543 m.) and then fade into the plains. The Ukrainian Carpathians are gentle peaks that rise as high as 2061 m. The higher peaks experienced some glaciation during the last Ice Age, and there are even a number of small tarns above 1700 meters and a spectacular lake Sinevyr at 1000 m.
Hoverla is the highest point of Ukraine, situated on the border of Ivano-Frankivsk and Zakarpattia regions on Chornohora mountain group. It has a cone form and is covered by Alpine meadows and dwarf shrub heath. At the bottom of mountain lies a waterfall and one of the sources of the river Prut. It is popular place for summer and winter tourism. In winter time the summit is classified as сlimbing 1A: Hoverla (sometimes written “Goverla”) is not a difficult mountain to climb. The most popular route is from the east — a mere 6 km climb from the trailhead at 1100 m above sea level (Zaroslyak mountain cottage) to the summit at 2061 m. Petros (2020 m) is one of the highest summits of Chornohora mountain range, located on the north-west end of the range between Sheshul and Hoverla mountains in Rakhiv district, Zakarpattia region. West and east sides are arduous with many stones, north and north-east sides are scarp with crags. There are a lot of bushes (low juniper, rhododendron), blueberry brakes and spruce forest (bellow 1530-1600 m). Sometimes there are avalanches in winter. Tourist shelter is situated on the south sides below Rogneska subalpine meadow.