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elicited a strong response from people, but not always the positive sentiments usually expressed by modern-day trampers and mountaineers. In fact, prior to the 18th century, mountains were often viewed disparagingly as ‘wastelands’, ‘God’s curse’, or even as ‘warts’ on the earth’s surface. It took the Romantic poets and writers of the late 1700s and
