Ouranopolis

The Holy Mountain

When a group of young students set off for Mount Athos, their intention was to explore the Holy Mountain on foot and to visit as many of the twenty surviving monasteries as possible. Their religious convictions ranged from the devout to the sceptical, their reasons for the journey from the spiritual to simple curiosity. When after ten days they returned to the “outside world”, they brought with them vivid impressions of the monastic life — and new insight into this renowned but little-known sphere of Orthodoxy.