The High Tatras are a mountain range located in the northern part of Slovakia, on the border with Poland. Three quarters of its area lies in Slovakia. Twenty-nine peaks with a height of over 2,500 metres above sea level highlight its Alpine character as well as basins along the perimeter. The High Tatras were declared the first national park in Slovakia (TANAP) in 1949 and in 1993, together with the Polish part of the Tatras, were declared by UNESCO a "Biosphere Reserve Tatras". With the length of 55 km, the High Tatras are the smallest mountain range in Europe. They were formed in the Tertiary Period by lifting of granite massif above ground level and their present form acquired by glacial activity during the Quaternary Period. This orogenic activity has resulted in the formation of distinctive rocky peaks – Gerlachovský Peak (2,655 m), which is the highest peak in the Tatras and in the entire Carpathians, Ľadový Peak (2,627m), Kežmarský Peak (2,558 m), Lomnický Peak (2,634 m), deep glacial valleys -Mengusovská Valley, Veľká and Malá Studená Valleys, and lakes of glacial origin, which have their own name in the Tatras - moraines and tarns - Štrbské pleso and Skalnaté pleso. In the Tatras, we register about 1,400 plant species and many animal species, strictly protected within TANAP all year round, live here too.