Salvemos las montañas

Mass tourism threatens the unique and unspoiled nature of the mountains. There are more and more car parks, ski lifts and roads that outline the mountain ranges. Reinhold Messner calls for a sustainable and reasonable interaction with the alpine cultural landscape, and calls on each and every one of us to protect mountains so that we can enjoy their natural state in the future. When the romantics discovered the beauty of the mountains, no one could imagine that this would be the beginning of mass Alpine tourism. Today entire mountainous regions have been turned into theme parks and barren slopes. Cyclists, climbers, hikers, skiers... all expect a perfect leisure, and at the same time trust an omnipresent mountain rescue service. The greatness of nature, however, is becoming more and more trivial. Reinhold Messner, who knows the mountains of this world like no one else, is an advocate for maintaining the cultural landscape and protecting the mountain from the threat of desertification. In a forceful way and with a strong voice, he shows that we all share the responsibility for the survival of this ancestral landscape. Only if we people change our lifestyles, we can save the mountains from their disappearance.