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moss Jul 21, 2009 11:02:35
Replying to Jane

Jane wrote:
Hasn't every mountain got a cairn at the top, like this?:
http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/site/12195/craig_cwmsilyn.html

Doesn't posting stuff like this open the the floodgates of some kind?

Discuss.

I suppose wicked Jane you are referring to 'munros', or to put it in context the achievement by 'man' to get as many mountains climbed under his belt as possible, thereby not only building new cairns from the old bronze age cairns but destroying them in the process!!
Total agreement with you, why do mountains have to be conquered, there is one sacred mountain in the Himayalans its even forbidden to set foot on....
Destruction of bronze age cairns is'nt on ......

Mind you I might be wrong ;)

G goffik
goffik Jul 21, 2009 12:32:06
Replying to moss

I dunno if these cairns have so much to with conquering but more to do with being markers for other walkers... I always assumed (I'm sure I've read several accounts, anyway) that these "walkers cairns" are used to guide walkers in bad weather.

I can testify first hand that they are very useful as guides when the clouds descend! :)

I'm sure, also, that it has been reported, as you so rightly, that actual bronze age cairns have been damaged as stones have been removed to add to the modern ones.

G x

B baza
baza Jul 22, 2009 22:03:40
Replying to moss

moss wrote:
...there is one sacred mountain in the Himayalans its even forbidden to set foot on....
Funny you should mention that, because I'm setting out on Friday to go to the very same mountain.

It's Mount Kailash, in Tibet.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Kailash