🔥 Read this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: Fiction,Australian books,Culture,Books âś… **What You’ll Learn**: ShUntil the late 18th century, before they became targets of conquest, Switzerland's mountains were considered merely “a natural backdrop, remote and best left alone,” as Claire Thomas wrote in her recent book, On Not Climbing Mountains. The philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau was particularly responsible for this shift, recasting mountains as “a site of spiritual support and potential enlightenment... People arrived, started climbing, and have been climbing ever since.”Not to Climb Mountains is a novel, but it draws from and references a great…
