Posted by Owen Roberts on October 15, 2008 at 01:42:26 user OwenRoberts.
In Reply to: TARBOARD IS GOOD FOR YOUR BRAIN! posted by Jock on October 15, 2008 at 23:36:42:
I wish it had the same effect on my brain!
However I don't think we ever answered Ed's request as to why we take stones to the top of mountains to make cairns.
I know stones were taken to the top of mountains to make bronze age burial barrrows. Perhaps we never got out of the habit.
Or perhaps we hope that one day we will have taken up enough stones to exceed the height of Everest!