Bobotov Kuk: Where You Can See Three Countries from One Peak
After being stricken with altitude sickness and spectacularly failing to climb Mount Fuji in Japan, I was a woman defeated. Despite knowing that turning back was the right thing to do, I couldn’t shake the feeling of failure. So it became my personal mission – almost a grudge, even – to finally find and summit the perfect mountain. When I arrived in Žabljak, Montenegro, the gateway to Durmitor National Park, I at first had no idea I’d be summiting my first mountain the following day. I had simply been told by a fellow traveler in Kosovo that the landscape in Durmitor was unreal, and to stay at Hikers Den. After meeting some fellow travelers at the hostel who wanted to hike Bobotov Kuk, the highest peak in Durmitor National Park, I was a woman with a mission: I was gonna make this mountain my bitch . Spoiler alert: I did. The Low-Down on Bobotov Kuk Bobotov Kuk is actually a fairly good mountain for beginners to climb. With an elevation of 8,278 feet (2,525 m...