This is absolutely fascinating information, as is the question it engenders. As a born and bred Midwesterner, I have always had a deep feeling for mountains and have had many of my most fulfilling and soul satisfying experiences among them; this is despite a degree of acrophobia that precludes any actual mountain climbing, as well as a couple of bouts of mild altitude sickness.This has long led me to wonder if my Norwegian and Austrian genes are somehow responsible for my preferred terrain. |