04/02/2022
While placing increased physiological demands on the heart, muscles and nerves, mountains at the same time provide only moderate sources of subsistence. From the writers of antiquity to the present day, they contrast the hardened mountain dwellers with the pampered inhabitants of the adjacent lowlands, especially in tropical regions (for example, in India, where the energetic inhabitants of the Himalayan mountains differ sharply from the sluggish inhabitants of the hot lowlands)
