Mountains of Memory: Confronting Climate Change in Sacred Mountain Landscapes

Mountains and glaciers are sites of powerful sacred and symbolic meanings for local communities around the world. In sacred mountain landscapes, religious practices address the observed changes in the landscape that have arisen as a consequence of climate change.  Both religious rituals and glacial landscapes are holders of collective memory – and the degradation of mountain landscapes represents a ‘dis-membering’ of the human community from the larger Earth community.