Landforms of high mountains / Формы рельефа высоких гор

When the high mountains call, then they come: The hikers and mountaineers, pupils, students, scientists, the juniors, the seniors, and the moderate or the extreme ones. All of them come and they come with pleasure. There are no exact numbers, but it might be millions annually who travel into the high mountains of the world.
All of us enjoy the beauties of the mountains: We take photographs, walk their valleys, climb over their glaciers, and climb their walls. We think often we know what we see at different landforms. However, can we also describe or explain them? And what actually do we know about their emergence? But what are the things called which we see? What exactly can we say about the various landforms? To us names like Reinhold Messner, Sir Edmund Hillary, Ueli Steck, Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner, or Wanda Rutkiewicz are familiar. But do we know the terms “lapies” or “shore moraine”?
This book shall give information about the various landforms in the high mountains. It is a textbook which is understandable and illustrated richly, an adviser, as well as a reference book. The book therefore addresses both the interested layman and pupils and teachers or students of earth sciences for introduction to the geomorphological variety of high mountain areas. However, it cannot and will not replace any conventional textbook. The secondary documents are referred to in the bibliography to deepen studies of the topics dealt with. <...>