Mountains revisited: theory in field practice

Tag: memory

  • Peaceful Hills

    Being an inhabitant of a small town on the foothills of Orlické hory, I’ve had mountains watching over me ever since I was born. In this short blogpost, I would like to contemplate the meaning that mountains have to me and what role they play in my life. Thanks to my parents and their love…

  • Mountains, memories, and freedom

    From dawn until dusk, I was surrounded by green landscapes, soft sounds, and colourful flowers while growing up. I started climbing trees as soon as I was tall enough to grab a branch and reached the top. The smell of wet earth reminds me of rolling on the grass under the pouring rain with my…

  • Mountaining connections

    When I’m asked about my relationship with mountains, what I think of first have to be my earliest memories. My parents took me and my brother to the Alps when I was about three years old, we were hiking, cycling, and exploring and I was ecstatic as I could be. What I liked the most…

  • Mountains

    I have never been that type of person who got crazily enthusiastic about anything and I still think I am not. I grew up in the countryside sorrounded by mountains and I was in contact with them on daily basis, that is maybe why I took them for granted. Now, I live in the city…

  • What it feels like to conquer a mountain

    I think I’ve always had a great ‘relationship’ with mountains. Because I was born and have lived all my life in Šumava, nature and mountains in particular are constantly part of my life. However, what might be slightly surprising is the fact that although I live just a couple of miles from a great ski…

  • Wonderful, but scary…

    Most people see mountains as wonderful scenery far away. As they the whitened peaks of the mountains and the massive mountain structures fielding kilometers and kilometers behind the horizon, this is what I loved watching while my family and I were driving to the Italian mountain complex – Trentino. Other views that most people see…

  • Ambarino Mountains (Red Dead Journey, PART I)

    Hi. Since I wanna make my research topic about a video game, I decided to stick to it since the beginning. So, I won’t talk about my relationship to the, let’s say “real mountains”, but to those from the video game I chose. The Red Dead series is something that’s much more than a game…

  • What Are Mountains to Me

    I always knew why I deeply love the sea : this unstable and impulsive waters, cradle of life and savage storms. I always knew why I love the night sky, gazing into infinity and falling in the unstoppable great waltz of the universe. But what are mountains to me? The easy answer would be freedom or…

  • Memories Set in Stone

    Mountains are memories eternal. None will ever come over their remnants to ponder who were the people that once inhabited them, for there never will be any remains.Mountains shall remain. And still, were that to happen, travelers would think of no people at all, for mountains are not the memories of any kind but of…