From ancient times to the present day, mountains have represented for many peoples a place of transition to a cosmic and otherworldly elsewhere. While in ancient cultures they were understood as the closest threshold to the divine on Earth, with the emergence of modern thought their meaning was reversed: from a sacred boundary, they became a goal to be reached and measured, a territory to be conquered in order to assert the primacy of knowledge and human action over nature.

In an increasingly unstable and compromised present, we wonder whether the mountain can still allow us to reorient our gaze, helping us to clarify what position we wish to take towards the planet we inhabit.