Today is International Mountain Day

Towering, majestic, and beautiful. Mountains are some of the most beautiful of nature’s structures, stolid and regal they stand against the sky, of such a size that they can catch entire countryside’s in their shadow, and turn back the ravages of storms against their unflinching sides.

They are the source of recreation and resource, with snow covered sides providing ski slopes to enthusiasts, and minerals in abundance to those brave enough to delve into their stony sides.

In certain areas of the world they are also a source of unique agriculture, providing ample space for the production of those products that grow best on their slopes. Coffee, Cocoa, Herbs, Spices, and the form of handicrafts that spring from the minds of those who live in the unchanging protection of these towering edifices to geology.

International Mountain Day is your opportunity to head out and appreciate these unique landforms, and all they have to offer.

 

Living in Norfolk, it's a bit of a trek to the nearest mountain..

 

Fear of a flat earth

 

A couple of my local sights as it's mountain day.

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Very impressive. But not a patch on the behemoth of a mountain that is Beeston Bump...

 

Is that near the Norwich Alps?

 

No, it's near the Cromer Crevices, on the east peninsula.

 

Is that one of those english 'mountains'
My daughter laughed when she saw the 'black mountains' in Wales.

 

Lol, it's the closest we get to mountains in Norfolk... at its peak, it's tens of feet tall! Only a few brave explorers have made it to the top without getting slightly out of breath!

 

You'll hear Julie Andrews singing in a minute

 

There's loads of Mountain Warehouses in Norfolk. Surely they sell mountains?

 

Put a flag on it yet? Suggest the North face route, less avalanche risk.

 

View from the top of the Aiguille du Tour, French Alps in my mountaineering days

 

Good point! I will purchase a few and scatter them about post haste.

 

Is that where those wing suit fellas did a jump a few years back?

 

LET. US. ROCK!

 

Fun Hill.

 

Do it all over. Great thing about Chamonix Valley is nowt like that is illegal