Mountains of the Mind: a History of a Fascination

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The danger and physical hardship -- all often seeming almost arbitrary (the freezing weather front, or fog that rolls in playing a greater role in success or failure than almost any decisions the climber takes) -- are part of the fun, the fact that an element of luck is vital to success (and, occasionally, survival) part of the fascination (as the reactions to the death-rolls he keeps presenting also seem to attest to). Mountains of the Mind goes back three centuries, showing how a few brainy opinion makers created the outdoor image. There were just two rocks at first, leaping and bounding down the face towards us, once cannoning off each other in mid-air. Macfarlane notes that: "what makes mountain-going peculiar among leisure activities is that it demands of some of its participants that they die" -- but then that's also part of its fascination and appeal.

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A mountain is a symbol of power (see on Revelation 8:8); seven is the number significant of universality (see on Revelation 1:4; 5:1, etc. Over and over I read that passage, and I wanted nothing more than to be one of those two tiny dots, fighting for survival in the thin air. While a few versions have Waltz outright stealing the gold, in other versions, he either rescued or fell in love with an Apache woman who shared the secret of a gold vein her people had been mining for centuries, but as punishment for sharing the knowledge with an outsider, her tongue was cut out, ensuring she could never speak again. While descending the rock-band, Herzog dropped his gloves and, by the time he reached Camp IV, he was barely able to walk. North, one can see as far as Cheshire; west commands views over the Stiperstones, and into Wales; the Cambrian Mountains in Powys, notably the Berwyn range and as far as Snowdonia on clear days.

It was believed that avalanches could be triggered by stimuli as light as a cough, the foot of a beetle, or the brush of a bird's wing as it swooped low across a loaded snow-slope.

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It beat a path of sound over the glacier and thumped its way off east, towards the pinnacle of the Zinalrothorn, where somebody else had died. It was supposed to scare away small birds but they regularly flew into the windows and killed themselves, thinking that the glass was air.Once again, only rumors kept the legend alive, and these events drove even more Dutch hunters to the dangerous mountains.