Sometimes deliberately, often unconsciously, writers and artists draw on traditional views of mountains to awaken a sense of the sacred. Like priests and prophets, they use the powerful symbolism of mountain imagery to evoke visions of a reality more intense and meaningful than that of our ordinary experience. We see things in a new and brighter light, one that reveals important aspects of life that we have overlooked or ignored. Like the peaks themselves, works of literature and art that use mountains to awaken a sense of the sacred are too numerous to cover in a comprehensive survey. This chapter will, instead, examine a few representative masterpieces by some of the most influential writers and artists of Eastern and Western civilizations.