Walking Europe's Last WildernessAn evocative voyage through the Carpathian mountain range and its threatened landscape, peoples, and history The Carpathian Mountains of Poland, Slovakia, Romania, and Ukraine are Europe's last true wilderness. A landscape of great spruce and beech forests, grass meadows, and ancient villages, its people contend daily with the elementsas well as Europe's last large carnivores. But this fragile ecosystem is now under threat, from climate change and