Costa Rica Eco Tourism, Teddy Roosevelt And The Matterhorn: The Beginnings
February 8th, 2010, author : Victor C. Krumm
Like so many of the planet’s greatest accomplishments, it began with an observation, so simple one wonders why nobody saw it earlier and so powerful it is still changing the world. It started with a unique man on a desolate but beautiful mountain called the Matterhorn. The world’s first eco tourist was Theodore Roosevelt and what we call “eco tourism” today leads thousands of people a year to a small sapphire named by Christopher Columbus five centuries ago: Costa Rica, the “rich coast.”
About 20 years before he was destined to become known as one of America’s finest presidents, Roosevelt traveled to Switzerland. He was already one of the earth’s most famous outdoorsmen who loved nature. So it was that the great man chose to conquer the famed Mount Matterhorn. When he did so, however, he ended up being chagrined by what he found on the mountain or, more accurately, what he didn’t.
The mountain was almost silent. Where once there had been many, there were no bears, wolves, goats, mountain sheep, or other wilderness creatures. Only ghosts of the past richness. But only memories.
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