Druhý Mních / Zadni Mnich, Tatra National Park
Facts and practical information
A monk - a peak in the Main Gold of the High Tatras with a height of 2172 m. As the only one of the three monks is not visible from the Morskie Oko, but you can see it, for example, from the road to Morskie Oko, from the former parking lot in the bristles clearing.
It has the shape of a rock needle and is one of the more characteristic peaks of the Polish Tatras. Władysław Cywiński considers him a Turnia. It rises between Cubryna and the dark-sinnian Turnia, on the Polish-Slovak border. He is separated from Cubryna by a switch under the monk, and from the dark -sinnian Turnia a dark -sized switch. From the south, it rises above the Piarażysta valley, from the north above the valley behind the monk. The northern wall falling on a monk of a monk is about 100 m in height. The ridge falls on the switch under the monk of a 30-meter fault, which at the descent requires a downhill rope, and at the entrance is one of the most difficult points of the Tatra Mountains.
In the nineteenth century, the Turnia was called a sugar rock or sugar head. The joking name of Juhaskie is: organist, monk baba, nun. The name widespread at the beginning of the 20th century is a monk II or a second monk. The current name was introduced by Gyula Komarnicki, and in the Polish version - Mieczysław Świerz.
From the rare plants at the foot of Zadni Mnich there are rock and Tatra Warzucha - species in Poland found only in the Tatras and in few positions.
In 1922, Wiktor Biegański shot the episode of the Tatra film abyss of penance on Zadni Mnich.
Tatra National Park
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