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Authors: BÎCA IOAN.
DOI: 10.24193/subbeag.66(3).28
Published Online: 2021-09-30
Published Print: 2021-09-30
pp. 107-118
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The peaks of the mountains have aroused the interest of people since ancient times. The route to get there, the difficulty of climbing, the view that was visible to the eyes there were challenges for everyone. And these turmoils, generated, over time, a special activity that targeted the mountain tops, mountaineering. From the moment Mont Blanc was conquered (Balmat, Paccard, 1786), then Everest (Hillary, Tenzing, 1953), mountain lovers are constantly looking to reach the peaks, to get drunk with ephemeral success, and become conquerors of useless (Terray, 1961). But the peaks, in addition to being bastions that need to be attacked, are also distinguished by geomorphometric approaches, and one of these approaches is the prominence, a parameter that represents the level difference by which a peak jumps over its base from the surrounding regions. Therefore, the higher this jump, the more important the tip is for mountaineers, and the more it should be included in the list. In this context, this paper aims to analyze and establish the prominence of the peaks of the most coveted mountain massif in the Romanian Carpathians, namely Făgăraș Mountains, highlighting a practical side of the problem, materialized by the methodological approach included in the research.
Keywords: mountain prominence, key-saddle, key col, line parent chain, parent-peak, mountain hierarchy, orometric dominance, mountaineering
