Former and current head of state climb mount Snežka

President Miloš Zeman and ex-president Vaclav Klaus ascended the highest Czech mountain peak Snežka in the Krkonoše Mountains on Saturday within the traditional St Lawrence pilgrimage. They joined several hundred people from the Czech Republic and neighbouring Poland for a mass celebrated out in the open by Cardinal Dominik Duka. The event was marred by a minor incident in which President Zeman’s critics and supporters exchanged words.