International Mountain Day is celebrated every year on 11 December, to raise awareness of the importance of mountains to life, to highlight the opportunities and constraints of mountain growth, and to create partnerships that bring meaningful change to mountain peoples and ecosystems around the world. For survival, mountains are important. We are linked to mountains and influenced by them in more ways than we can imagine whether we live at sea level or at the highest elevations. Mountains contain much of the freshwater in the world, harbor a rich variety…
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