🏔️ Mountains

• 🏔️How Petrarch's Mont Ventoux Climb (Sort of) Pioneered Modern Mountaineering

  Petrarch's 1336 ascent of Mont Ventoux in Provence was a foundational moment for recreational mountaineering and spiritual self-discovery.

• 💥How to Stop an Avalanche? Blow Up a Mountain

  Alta, Utah launches its first ski lift in 1939, sparking a need for extreme measures—including explosives—to control deadly avalanches.

• ❄️To Winter, by William Blake

  A reflection on William Blake's evocative poem "To Winter," which captures the essence of the season and the power of nature.