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Authors: BÎCA IOAN.
DOI: 10.24193/subbeag.64(3).25
Published Online: 2019-09-30
Published Print: 2019-09-30
pp. 89-104
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ABSTRACT: In recent years, mountain leisure activities in Romania recorded spectacular growth, due to several factors, such as: technical progress in the field of mountain equipment, increased leisure and circulation of information on the internet or in the media. If in the past, mountain tourism activities belonging, to a certain extent, of niche tourism, today they fall into mass tourism and one of the criteria that attract the mountaineers to mountain areas is altitude and prominence of the peaks. The higher the altitude, the more attractive and competitive the respectively peak. The prominence is a parameter that refers to the gap between top and base of the peak, marked by neighboring saddles called key-saddles or key-col. According UIAA, minimal prominence for a mountain/hill structure to be considered peak with relevance for sports activities is 30 m (a rope length). Between altitude and prominence of the peak is not necessarily a relation, therefore, often, more important is the last one, who actually, identifying the peak. Therefore, in this study it approached Rodnei Mountains area, which was manually calculated the prominence of the peaks from main ridge, in order to underline the importance of this sector for various leisure activities.
Key words: mountain tourism, mountain leisure, mountaineering, key-saddle, base level, independent peak, parent peak, orometric dominance
