Armchair geologist here! Here's the thing. You said the Pamir mountains are not a plateau. Are they both geography? Yes. No one's arguing that. As someone who climbs and hikes on mountains, I am telling you, specifically, I am gonna solve this whole argument for both of you:
Here's the thing. You said a "hill is a mountain."
Is it in the same family? Yes. No one's arguing that.
As someone who is a scientist who studies mountains, I am telling you, specifically, in science, no one calls hills mountains. If you want to be "specific" like you said, then you shouldn't either. They're not the same thing.
If you're saying "mountain family" you're referring to the taxonomic grouping of Landforms, which includes things from buttes to crags to plateaus.
So your reasoning for calling a hill a mountain is because random people "call the tall ones mountains?" Let's get bluffs and mesas in there, then, too.
A hill is a hill and a member of the landform family. But that's not what you said. You said a hill is a mountain, which is not true unless you're okay with calling all members of the landform family mountains, which means you'd call bluffs crags, mesas, and other elevated landmasses, too. Which you said you don't.
The point is to look at literally any of the results when you Google the plateau which was specifically chosen as the Google term because it's in the name of this post.
The point is to show you that if you just googled the place in the title of this thread, you would have easily found out that it was mountains.
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u/TurgidGravitas Feb 11 '25
It's only disorienting due to the camera settings. It's just a hill.