“Easier than a polder“: reactions to the plan
The plans for a mountain in the Netherlands have also been attracting attention from abroad. The meeting in Utrecht was attended by journalists from countries including Germany and Britain. There have also been plenty of reactions on the Radio Netherlands Worldwide websites, particularly from Arab countries….
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This was not what semi-professional cyclist-cum-journalist Thijs Zonneveld had expected when he posted a column on a popular Dutch news website on August 5 in which he laughingly urged his countrymen to create their own mountain with alpine slopes, meadows and villages.
“It was not serious but the next day there was such a serious response from people who had actually been thinking about it and calculating stuff that it made me realize I was not the only one who’d had that idea,” Zonneveld said.
The highest natural ground in the Netherlands is at Vaalserberg, in the southern province of Limburg, with an altitude of just 323 meters, making it little more than a hill in the low-lying country in the eyes of most people.
But Zonneveld, 30, dreams of an artificial mountain 5 km (3.107 miles)
wide and between 1 and 2 km in height, which would surpass the world’s tallest man-made building, the 828-meter (yard) high Burj Khalifa skyscraper in Dubai.
http://www.rnw.nl/english/article/brainstorm-dutch-mountains
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