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| International Mountains Day 2018 |
Mountains
Mountains have a great importance in our environment. A mountain is
a large landform that rises above the surrounding land in a limited area,
usually in the form of a peak. A mountain is generally steeper
than a hill. Mountains are formed through tectonic forces or
volcanism.
Mountains play a vital and significant role in providing water
and food supply to the millions and billions of people all over the world.
Mountains almost cover around 22 percent of the surface of the earth and 13 percent
of the world’s population live in the mountains mostly in northern parts of the
area usually on peaks. Almost Ninety percent of the world’s mountain
inhabitants/people live in the developing countries, where a large amount of
population live under the poverty line of mountains, and one out of every three
individuals experiences the danger of food insecurity due to loss of fauna and
flora.
Mountains offer 60-80 percent of the world’s freshwater.
According to the research of UNO, almost one billion people live in mountain
areas, and over half of the human population depends on mountains for water and
nutrition. Mountains are facing risk from climate change and due to less amount
of rainfall occurs due to climate change therefore a large threat to forests and
natural calamities. Mountains face severe climate change as the global
temperature continues to warm which disturbs starving and poorest people of the
world who live in the mountains. Forests are in great danger due to which
sustainability rate is going to decrease, floods occur due to removal of
forests. Due to the increasing temperature, glaciers on the mountains start
melting which brings floods in the world. Currently, 329 million people living
in the mountains face food scarcity due to change of climate change.
K-2 the highest Peak of
Pakistan
World’s second highest mountain peak K2 lies in the Pakistan. K2
is 8,611 meters high. This is a great asset to Pakistan that highest peaks of
Pakistan lies in Pakistan. While the highest peak in the province Sindh is
Gorakh Hill Station, it is in the Khirthar mountain ranges, and its height is
7057 feet. This mountain lies in district Dadu. This is a very beautiful hill
station for tourism.
Even during the hot summer season, one can have pleasant weather
here, and in the winter season, visitors enjoy natural snowfall. Sadly, this
hill station remained overlooked in terms of development. The road which leads
to Gorakh hill station is in poor condition. No parks or plantation can be seen
in this hill station.
Although a huge budget has been released for the development of
Gorakh hill station, the development remained only in papers and working have
not been start. Residents of Gorakh hill station live an unstable and miserable
life. Even, there is no education system and not a single school in this hilly
area. If development work is carried out properly in this area, this tourist
place can become more attractive and it will surely called the Muree of Sindh.
The international community has to take steps to save mountains
and make it sustainable and also save its inhabitants from climate change and
other natural disasters. Especially, the Sindh government should take needful
measures for the development of Gorakh hill station and make it a wonderful
tourist place for people.
Facts about mountains
1. The world’s highest un-climbed mountain is the
24,981ft Gangkhar Puensum in Bhutan, which is the world’s 40th highest
mountain.
2. There is no generally accepted definition for how tall
a hill has to be to be called a mountain. Some regions say 1,000ft, others say
2,000ft.
3. The Ordnance Survey used to say 1,000ft, but they
dropped that definition long ago.
4. Mount Kea in Hawaii is some 4,000ft taller than
Everest if measured from its undersea base.
5. In 1999, GPS satellites showed that Everest was 7ft
higher than had previously been thought.
6. Because of tectonic plate movement, Everest grows
about 4mm a year.
7. Over 6,000 people have now climbed Everest including a
13-year-old American in 2010.
8. The first wedding at the summit was in 2005.
9. Scottish mountains over 3,000ft high are called
Munros. British mountains and hills over 150 metres high are called Marilyns.
10. In 1974, a German team that had set out to climb
Annapurna 4 was reported to have reached the top of Annapurna 2 by
mistake.
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