Phenomenology is the study of phenomena, that is, of the experiences of our consciousness. According to Edmund Husserl, the phenomenological foundation of all consciousness is the experience of the present moment.
“Clock time” is a cultural phenomenon in which we were introduced in our childhood and in which we remain engrossed in our adulthood. When we were children, there was no such thing as clock time, but rather lived time, or more exactly, skied time. This is how we perceived time before society forced us to adapt to clock time.
The phenomenology of space reveals not only the cartographic space (the demarcation of the slopes), but also, and more importantly, the lived space, i.e. the skied space, that is to say, a ‘here’ present in relation to the ‘other’ at a variable distance. And when we say that we miss a certain ‘space’ in the mountain, we actually mean that we miss a time that corresponds to that place.
