De Sus est un projet écrit pour Andrei Nutu-Manea et Explore Romania . 2022 .
De Sus a pour vocation de répertorier les paysages de montagne des Carpates Occidentales au travers des saisons afin de permettre et encourager diverses pratiques physiques et sportives outdoor (escalade, randonnée, VTT, ski de randonnée).
“Truth itself wanders through the forest.”
(Werner Herzog)
“Apart from being wild and mysterious, our carpathian forests also hide a certain number of beautiful mammals known as large carnivores: wolves, bears and European lynx. Their presence is favoured by the existence of large surfaces of natural woodland, by the “not so high” number of people actually living in Romania, and probably the most important, by the sense of space most of these people still preserve in their heads, and that I call a preference for freedom instead of security.
As a consequence, the presence of wildlife is something you feel constantly while hiking these mountains, accompanied by another very precious feeling: that of the lack of borders to these wild spaces. And that makes this wilderness in the heart of Europe unique for us: five minutes away from a sunny meadow where a twelve year old girl rakes the hay, lies THE FOREST: deep, wild, never ending, mysterious, teeming with old gods, like bears and wild boars and eagles. To fully understand what we talk about, better be around in December or March, when the snow is here: it’s the animal tracking season.”
Andrei Nutu-Manea.
Andrei Nutu-Manea
Born in Piatra-Neamt on the 5th of October 1979, in the Eastern Carpathians of Romania, Andrei was a member of Neamt County Mountain Rescue Team between 1996 and 2000. National Tourist Guide since 2002, he graduated from the Law School at Bucharest University in 2003. He has been a sport climbing coach since 2008 and a Mountain Guide since 2014.
Andrei’s biggest interest lies in developing rock climbing first ascents, an activity to which he is profoundly dedicated since the end of 1990’s.
The second most important for him comes the offpiste skiing, a passion that has constantly grown in the last ten years, especially since teaming with and learning a lot from Nicolae Durnac, also part of De Sus.
Trekking and MTB are filling the rest of the picture, while wandering through uncharted forest, peaks and valleys, quite often in search of mushrooms, is a constant thread in his everyday life.