Meteora is a complex of imposing dark rocks, rising over the settlements of Kalampaka and the picturesque Kastraki village, on the plain of Thessaly, Greece. There are approximately 900 multi-pitch ...

High above the Meteora landscape in the central region of Greece, 60 monks and nuns live in fabled monasteries perched on the edge of sandstone peaks. In centuries past, their place of worship brought ...

Greece is often celebrated for its sun-drenched islands and ancient ruins, but tucked between its olive groves and mountain ...

At Meteora in Greece the German climbers Frank Wehner, Tino Tanneberger, Manuel Hasterok, Felix Friedrich, Tom Ehrig and Felix Bähr have established two big multi-pitch climbs, Heureka (160m, 8+) and ...

Balanced across 24 giant rock formations that reach nearly 400m into the sky are ancient monasteries, visible through the clouds. Above the town of Kalambaka, on the north-western edge of Greece’s ...

This article was produced by National Geographic Traveller (UK). As the sun sinks towards the serrated horizon of the distant Pindus Mountains, the assembled congregation grows quiet. There are ...