10 August 1873 The Carpathian Society is founded at SmokovecV Smokovci vzniká Karpatský spolok

On 10 August 1873 about three hundred and forty-five people met at Smokovec and founded the Hungarian Carpathian Society, the first tourist organisation in the country, with its office in Kežmarok. From 1874 it issued certificates to mountain guides — thirty-seven men in the first round — and ran a combined guiding and rescue service. Between 1875 and 1888 it marked the paths up the Studená, Velická and Mengusovská valleys, cut a transversal route along the slope that is the ancestor of today's road between the settlements, built huts including Sliezsky dom in 1895 and the hut at Zelené pleso in 1897, and opened the Carpathian Museum in Poprad in 1881. Almost every marked path you walk here started as their work.10. augusta 1873 sa v Smokovci zišlo asi tristoštyridsaťpäť ľudí a založili Uhorský karpatský spolok, prvú turistickú organizáciu v krajine, s kanceláriou v Kežmarku. Od roku 1874 vydával preukazy horským vodcom — v prvom kole tridsiatim siedmim mužom — a viedol spojenú vodcovskú a záchrannú službu. V rokoch 1875 – 1888 vyznačil chodníky Studenou, Velickou a Mengusovskou dolinou, presekal po svahu priečnu trasu, ktorá je predchodkyňou dnešnej cesty medzi osadami, postavil chaty vrátane Sliezskeho domu (1895) a Chaty pri Zelenom plese (1897) a v roku 1881 otvoril v Poprade Karpatské múzeum. Takmer každý značený chodník, po ktorom tu prejdete, začal ako ich práca.