Portal de Turismo de Castilla y León

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December 2, 2026

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in charge of Daniel Boyano Sotillo

Wednesday, December 2nd, at 7:00 p.m.

Mountains, as well as being mere places for sporting activities or study centres for researchers like those at Cryosanabria, are revered throughout the world as mysterious places that have the power to evoke an intense feeling of the sacred. For people of very different cultures, this mystery and this feeling of the sacred give meaning and vitality to their existence.

Many cultures speak in their traditions of the "union" between earth and sky and of the possibility of such contact on high mountains. There are mountains that have become true myths: the Caucasus Mountains, famous for being the place where the Titan Prometheus was supposedly chained; Mount Olympus; Ararat, where Noah’s Ark is supposed to have run aground; Fujiyama in Japan; Mount Kailas in Tibet or Mount Meru for Buddhists. On all continents, humans have built pyramids of various shapes and sizes to imitate, in some way, the sacred mountains.

Daniel Boyano Sotillo , an environmental geographer and mountaineer, has carried out his professional work in diverse natural environments, including mountains around the world such as the Himalayas, the Andes, the Atlas Mountains, the Alps, the Arctic Mountains, the rainforests of Central Africa, the mountains of Southeast Asia, volcanoes in Central and North America, and the mountain ranges of the Iberian Peninsula. He has studied these natural spaces from both a scientific and a humanistic perspective, traversing deserts, interviewing indigenous communities in the rainforest, and conversing with local people in the world's major mountain ranges. He immerses himself in the environment, living, listening, observing, eating, and feeling like the locals. All of this is done to translate the language of nature and different cultures for the readers of his writings.

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