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For sober thinking geologists, the formation of mountains
(orogenesis) goes back to plate tectonics. The shifting of the
continental plates causes mountains to form, erosion removes them
again. Even the longest mountain range on earth was formed in this
way: from Alaska to the Andes, the American Cordilleras form the
eastern part of the Pacific Ring of Fire, where 452 volcanoes rise.
And indeed, fire-spitting giants and bitterly cold worlds of ice
are the main reasons for the fascination composed of fear and
reverence that mountains exerted on early mankind. Mountain peaks
were home to the oldest weather gods. In fact, mountains are
meteorological divides and watersheds and determine the climate,
and their diverse and unique vegetation zones are life-givers. Only
hesitantly did people approach colossal holy mountains like the
Annapurna in the Himalayas, the “Goddess of food and nourishment”.
But curiosity won out, ice mummies in the Alps, Andes and Altai
prove it: hunters, shepherds and priests were drawn early to these
heavenly places. The highest archaeological site on earth is on
Llullaillaco (6,739 m/22,109 ft): on the border between Argentina
and Chile, the Incas were already building temples before 1500 AD.
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