When you see the mountains like this [Riffelberg], the idea that should come into a good human being would be: ”Oh God, I can see You in this sublime form and how will I conquer my ignorance? How will I climb over my mountain of arrogance to look at You?”
To an egoistical mind, the mountain is for the joy of the eyes, and the joy which is really not the Joy, but is a kind of a pleasure for them to see. Their ego gets challenged and they want to climb on the mountain, that ”we are higher than you!”
We had Himalayas for thousands and thousands of years in India; nobody ever thought of climbing it! When the English came, they started doing it first time. Then the French, Portuguese, Spanish, all of them all did this and the Indians were looking at them bewildered, ”What are they doing?! Why do they want to climb the mountains? Is better to see them from a distance and adore them, than to climb over them to die!”