įor most of antiquity, climbing mountains was a practical or symbolic activity, usually undertaken for economic, political, or religious purposes. The famous poet Petrarch describes his 26 April 1336 ascent of Mount Ventoux (1,912 m (6,273 ft)) in one of his epistolae familiares, claiming to be inspired by Philip V of Macedon's ascent of Mount Haemo. Nonetheless, there are many documented examples of people climbing mountains prior to the formal development of the sport in the 19th century, although many of these stories are sometimes considered fictional or legendary.
However, the highest mountains were rarely visited early on, and were often associated with supernatural or religious concepts. The remains of Ötzi, who lived in the 4th millennium BC, were found in a glacier in the Ötztal Alps. Humans have been present in mountains since prehistory. 1.2 The Enlightenment and the Golden Age of Alpinism.
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