In the last decades of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century, it was quite a rule for Slovenian educated people to visit the hard-to-reach national fortress of Solčava, its mountains and valleys, at least once. And many returned again and again.
Solčavan Franci Herle has an important place in the history of Slovenian mountaineering. He was a versatile athlete and climber. In 1939 he climbed the north face of the Polish Maidens with Dušani Gradišnik from Celjan, and then the face of Veliki vrh. Both approaches were first … (Valent Vider, Notes on Solčava and its surroundings)