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The Alps
are a young mountain range-
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only about 20 million years old.
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They were created when ltaly,
riding the African plate
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collided with Europe
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and punched these jagged peaks
into a younger daylight
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Eiger, Jungfrau, Matterhorn-
magical names.
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Like the immortal sea
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the mountains speak to something
deep in our human nature.
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they suggest the grandeur
and terror of human disorders...
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of unimaginably vast
processes...
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of time scales
where the individual life
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seems hardly more
than the span of a mayfly
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and the life
of a whole civilization
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is less than a mountain moment,
or heartbeat of common stones.
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ln the scale of the earth's
plates, the movements
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are imperceptible.
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ln the scale of man
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they are the living nightmare
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of an earthquake.