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| One of the UK’s leading technical retailers of outdoor clothing and equipment, supplying everything you would need for walking trips, camping holidays, backpacking & trekking expeditions, mountaineering, climbing, adventure racing and travel. A disquisition that we sometimes make here at Andinia, related as it is with trekking and exploration but somewhat arcane, is to consider or speculate about what could we see as explores in our planet if we could travel thorough time. The fact that we still cannot do that is clear, but it is not entirely impossible that someone might solve the question of time travel one day. If we could travel to the future or to the past, what kind of mountains would we find? This is undoubtedly speculative, as we said, but nevertheless, it is an interesting intellectual exercise; for example, the fact that Mount Everest is the highest mountain now on Earth does not mean that it is the absolute highest thorough the geological history of our planet. There is no guarantee regarding this fact. And then, how could the mountains of our world have looked during the Ordovician period, 480 million years ago and while all vegetal and animal life remained in the water and no life form had yet appeared on land? Certainly, these mountains would have looked somewhat differently from our present ones, without greenish areas and with much less shadows, very extenuating to trek thorough due to the lack of places to rest, and probably all landscapes would have looked much like what is seen on high mountains or desert areas; barren, and not quite interesting indeed except for the fact of belonging to a different era. And what about other eras like the carboniferous period? From a distance, those mountains would have looked quite similar to what we have today, with a green carpet, snow and so on. However, while getting closer, vegetation would appear quite different, starting with the tree-sized ferns that abounded at that time. |
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