Passing the Baton: Approaching the Mountains with Observant Eyes

Snow Ram, whose Facebook fan page boasts of nearly 110,000 followers, is currently the most followed mountaineer KOL in Taiwan and also a writer who documents mountains. With his writing and photos, he documents the beauty of the mountain wilderness of Taiwan, describing the cultures, stories and indigenous histories intertwined the landscape.

Inevitably, it has become extremely difficult for modern people to return to the traditional way of life. Various factors such as reliance on the Internet, inescapable use of plastic products, and the idea of resorting to consumption as a means of solutions, have resulted in an irreparable estrangement between humans and nature while we’re seeking to approach the mountains. Since it’s impossible to break free from the confinement of new technology and ideas, why not just embrace them and see what they have to offer modern hikers in response to the change of the times?

Over the past 20-some years, Taiwan has seen two high-profile planned waves of indigenous participation in museums. The first wave began in 1995 with the Shung Ye Museum of Formosan Aborigines “Indigenous Village Special Exhibition” series, followed by the “Voice from The Tribes exhibition” shown at the National Museum of Prehistory in early 2000. Both exhibitions focused on the right to interpretation. ...

If you had a piece of land, what would you do with it? However, before you made good use of it, you would have to know one thing first, which is “land-use zoning.” Land-use zoning refers to the segregation of land into use for different areas for each type of use. For example, land for construction or for agriculture and husbandry. When an area of land is classified as a forestry land, a great deal of difficulty could be expected if one wishes to suit it for other purposes.