Editor's Picks: The meaning of mountains
The Geographical Podcast - A podcast by Geographical

In this episode of The Geographical Podcast, we read out articles from our print magazine or website. This week, we head into the mountains with Dawn Hollis, a historian at St Andrews University, whose research focuses on the history of mountains and mountain-climbing. For many hillwalkers and mountaineers, mountains are something to be conquered – but it hasn’t always been this way. As famous peaks such as Everest become increasingly, and dangerously, crowded, Hollis wonders whether there ar...