The Mont Blanc massif, surrounded by borders with France, Italy and Switzerland, contains eleven major independent summits, each over 4,000 metres. The Mont Blanc summit itself stands at 4,808 metres, and is the highest mountain in the Alps and Western Europe.
Mountains have figured in human history ever since it was written down. Biblical stories describe Noah on Ararat, Moses on Sinai and Jesus on the Mount of Olives 1. Other religions feature mountains as central characters, such as Buddhism which
We’ll come onto the first humans to climb mountains in another post, but long before people ever had the inclination to set foot up high, animals have found safety and plenty to sustain them on the upper grounds.
The definition of a mountain in the US is a steep natural elevation above 300 m (1,000 ft), whereas in the UK the stipulation is above 600 m (2,000 ft).
This is a blog by an obsessive armchair mountaineer who occasionally wanders outside in search of steep and high places. Everyone has their own summit objectives, high or low, and the desire to reach the top is sometimes all-consuming. For