International Mountain Leader
International Mountain Leader
This article was first published by The Feminist Hiking Collective. I remember my summer holidays as a kid. It was a big group of us: four or five families with two or three children each, “colonising” a small alpine village for two straight weeks in the middle of summer holidays. My parents and their […]
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Winter in the mountains can be tough for animals. Colder temperatures, shortened daylight hours, and lack of food can make it pretty hard to survive. They have to use energy to keep warm at a time when food is scarce. So how do they do it? Hibernation Some animals hibernate in dens to avoid the
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Winter is a tough time for trees, that have to cope with the double challenge of little sunlight and low temperatures. Animals either keep moving and eat more food than usual to survive, or they hibernate to avoid the cold season altogether. But what do trees do? They certainly can’t move around to keep warm.
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