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| what could happen |

  • Camille Lacadée (editor)
  • François Roche (editor)
Chapter of: MythomaniaS: Crime Scenes & Psycho Case Studies(pp. 64–65)

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Title| what could happen |
ContributorCamille Lacadée (editor)
François Roche (editor)
DOIhttps://doi.org/10.21983/P3.0113.1.12
Landing pagehttps://punctumbooks.com/titles/mythomanias/
Licensehttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
CopyrightLacadée, Camille; Roche, François
Publisherpunctum books
Published on2015-09-23
Long abstractSomething makes people want to walk, ride or climb to the mountaintops - how dangerous an undertaking this may be because of conditions of terrain and weather. It is something completely irrational. Some have themselves brought to the tops of mountains with trains, cable cars and even helicopters. It is often thought that this is to appreciate a sublime, untameable nature, since it has been already the theme of many a sublime Romantic painting or poem. But in fact most Alpine mountain tops are as artificial as a Dutch polder, not just with the crosses on top, but with mines dug underneath, avalanche protection, restaurants, hotels, ski slopes, ski lifts, half-pipes for snowboarders, artificial lakes to produce artificial snow, a view of the urbanized valley below, and in summer, cows not for the production of milk and meat but for maintenance. All of this is realized only to enable people dressed in special clothes, helmets, and harnesses, to throw themselves down again literally as soon as they have arrived on top, using sleighs, skis, snowboards or specially designed and high-tech so-called freeride mountain bikes.
Page rangepp. 64–65
Print length2 pages
LanguageEnglish (Original)