About Montenegro
Montenegro is situated east of Italy on the Adriatic Sea. It is a fairly small country that borders Bosnia, Serbia and Albania. YUCPC have concentrated efforts on the area in Durmitor national park in the northern part of Montenegro. Durmitor is a mountain within the national park reaching at height 2,522 meters at a ridge known as Bobotov Kuk.
Name Durmitor is probably derived from Balkan Romance (some Romanian/Vlach dialect), and it means "sleeping" (cognate with English dormitory). There are similarly named mountains such as Visitor (visator, "dreaming") and Cipitor ( atipitor, "sleeping") across ex-Yugoslavia. Another etymology could be from Celtic meaning "mountain with water".
A part of the National park Durmitor is also the Tara River Canyon, 80 km long and 1,300 m deep, second largest in the world, just behind Grand Canyon in Arizona. The Durmitor massif offers : 18 lakes, 5 canyons, 27 peaks above 2200 meters, 48 peaks above 2000 meters, 748 sources of potable waters, forests over 500 years old, 2000 km of marked foot paths and climbing paths.
YUCPC has has 4 expeditions to the area in 2004, 2007, 2010 and 2011.
A return in 2012 is currently in the planning.