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December 11, 2024
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"Sacred Mountains of the World", lecture by Daniel Boyano Sotillo.

Mountains, as well as being mere places for sporting activities or study centres for researchers like those at Cryosanabria, are revered throughout the world as mysterious places that have the power to evoke an intense feeling of the sacred. For people of very different cultures, this mystery and this feeling of the sacred give meaning and vitality to their existence.

Many cultures speak in their traditions of the "union" between earth and sky and of the possibility of such contact on high mountains. There are mountains that have become true myths: the Caucasus Mountains, famous for being the place where the Titan Prometheus was supposedly chained; Mount Olympus; Ararat, where Noah’s Ark is supposed to have run aground; Fujiyama in Japan; Mount Kailas in Tibet or Mount Meru for Buddhists. On all continents, humans have built pyramids of various shapes and sizes to imitate, in some way, the sacred mountains.

Daniel Boyano Sotillo , environmental geographer and mountaineer, has carried out his professional work in different natural spaces, highlighting mountains of the world such as the Himalayas, the Andes, the Atlas, the Alps, the Arctic Mountains, the Jungle Mountains of Central Africa, the Mountains of Southeast Asia, Central American and North American Volcanoes and the Mountain Ranges of the Iberian Peninsula. To do so, he has studied natural spaces from a scientific and a humanistic point of view, crossing deserts, interviewing indigenous native populations of the jungle, talking with local interlocutors from the main mountains on earth, merging into the environment and living, listening, looking, eating, feeling... like the locals. All this in order to translate the language of nature and different ethnicities to the readers of his texts.

  • December 11 (International Mountain Day), 7:00 p.m.
  • Auditorium of the Public Library of Zamora
  • Free admission until full capacity

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  • Postal address Biblioteca Pública de Zamora - Plaza Claudio Moyano, s/n. municipality of Zamora . NaN. Zamora