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1. Introductory remarks.- Part 1: The Pioneering Dimension.- 2. Mountain Studies and Research in the Eighteenth Century: The Contributions  of Horace Bénédict de Saussure and Alexander von Humboldt to the Study of Mountains.- 3. Mountain Development Adventure: The Hillary Model behind the Hillary Medal.- 4. Historical and Contemporary Contributions of the ?Climber-Scientist? to Mountain Geography.- Part 2: The Human Dimension.- 5. Geopolitical and Cultural Appropriations: ?Mountain? as a Social Construct.- 6. Human Diversity, Identities, and Indigeneity in Contrasting Mountain Landscapes.- 7. Mountain Landscapes as ?Lifescapes?: Sustaining Traditional Biocultural Heritage and Supporting Resilience in the Asia-Pacific Region.- 8. Urbanization and the Verticality of Rural?Urban Linkages in Mountains.- Part 3: The Physical Dimension.- 9. Trends of Land Use and Land Cover Change in Mountain Regions.- 10. Atmospheric Envelopes and Glacial Retreat.- 11. Mountain Landslides ? An Overview of Common Types and Future Impacts.- 12. The Spiritual and Cultural Importance of Mountains.- 13. A Biocultural Ethic for Coinhabiting Mountainous Rivers.- 14. High Altitude Archaeology and the Anthropology of Sacred Mountains: 25 Years of Explorations and Diseminations.- Part 5: The Biogeographical Dimension.- 15. The Paleoecological View from the Mountains.- 16. Mountain Waterscapes: Geographies of Interactions, Transformations and Meanings.- 17. Biogeography of Knowledges in the Mountainous Anthropocene: Hybrid Conceptual and Practical Spaces within the GeoHumanities.- 18. Agrobiodiversity in Mountain Territories: Family Farming and the Challenges of Social-Environmental Changes.- Part 6: The Conservation Dimension.- 19. Construction of Disaster Risk in Mountain Systems and its Integrated Management.- 20. Population Movements, Colonization Trends and Amenity Migrants in Mountainscapes.- 21. Mountain Protected Areas and Ecotourism for Sustainable Development: A Case Study of Ecuador.- 22. Mountain Biosphere Reserves as Model Territories: Reconciling the Goals of Biological/Cultural Heritage Conservation and Development.- 23. World Heritage and Mountain Sites.- Part 7: The Epistemological Dimension.- 24. Ecosystem Services and Benefits of Nature to People: Global Change Pressures and Conflicts of Use in Mountainscapes.- 25. Metascientific Approaches to Montology.- 26. Terminology and Argot Woes in the Corpus of Mountain Geographies.- 27. Conclusion.