Mountain Men



Mountain Men, or Maunon ( Trigedasleng ) is a term used by the Sky People and the Grounders to describe a person who comes from Mount Weather. The Mountain Men alive today are descendants of humans who survived the nuclear apocalypse 97 years before the show, by living inside of Mount Weather. They are responsible for creating the savage Reapers as well as the Acid Fog that have both killed many. Because of this the Grounders have a negative view of Mountain Men. As of Fog of War part of the remaining delinquents finds out about this, and they no longer see them as their salvation.

Dr. Tsing mentioned in Long Into an Abyss that there are 382 Mountain Men living inside of Mount Weather. However, in Coup de Grâce, the number drops to 380 when a sniper from Mount Weather is killed by a Grounder, and Sgt. Lovejoy is killed by Bellamy. In Rubicon, Bellamy creates a radiation leak that causes the deaths of eleven Mountain Men (including Dr. Tsing), and that puts the number of Mountain Men to 369. By the end of Resurrection, two guardsmen are killed by Bellamy, one sniper is killed by Clarke, and ten guardsmen are killed by the Delinquents in the mess hall, leaving only 356 Mountain Men left. Several more Mountain Men are killed during the Delinquent sweeps, the skirmishes on the ridge above the door, at the dam, and when they take another group of Sky People captive during Blood Must Have Blood (Part 1). After Clarke and Bellamy irradiate level 5 in Blood Must Have Blood (Part 2), all Mountain Men die except for Cage Wallace and Carl Emerson. After Cage is killed by Lincoln, Carl Emerson remains the sole survivor of Mount Weather.

Society
Dante Wallace had been president of Mount Weather for a long time. His father was one before him, stating that Mount Weather obtains some sort of monarchy-based government. He mentions 56 years ago he went outside for 5 minutes at the age of 7.

His father, who was the leader at the time, thought that the earth was survivable again. Within a week 54 people were dead from the exposure, among them, Dante's mother and sister.

Some time in history, the mountain men decided to engage in several projects and tests, driven by mostly their survival instinct and to find a solution for possible radiation.

The Harvest
Main Article: Harvest Project
 * The harvest is a project currently led by Dr. Tsing known throughout Mount Weather. Grounders are captured in 'the outside world' by Reapers. Their blood is drained and used to treat the effects of radiation among the mountain men because Grounders have a higher tolerance of radiation.

The Cerberus Project
Main Article: Cerberus Project
 * The Cerberus Project is a project led by Cage Wallace, that is unknown to the rest of Mount Weather, aside from a limited few. Cage will take grounders who are originally meant for the harvest. He will capture them and restrain them, before administering a drug that is most likely highly addictive. Through senortherapy the test subjects learn to associate high pitched noise with pain, this way Cage controls the test subjects. Eventually after several stages, the subject will become savage and will turn into a reaper.

Language
The Mountain Men spoke common English, like the people from the ark do.

Among the Mountain Men there were potentially more dialects and other languages intact, seeing as Mountain Men had more books at their disposal to study and learn other languages. This is highly suggested by the numerous flags seen in the Mess Hall.

Notes and Trivia

 * So far, no congressmen or women have been seen. Suggesting the President may be the single ruler of the Mountain Men.
 * Cage has taken over as the President of Mt. Weather and has imprisoned his father and taken over his office. Cage reveals he along with Dr. Tsing and many others within the Mountain want to live on the Ground.
 * There is a group of revolution-minded people that was led my Maya's Mom and now her that are against Grounders/Outsiders dying to treat radiation.
 * Carl Emerson was supposed to die in the finale and everyone from Mount Weather were supposed to have died. This was taken out due to time constraints and Carl remains the sole survivor.
 * Mount Weather had two armies; the Guard and the Reapers.
 * It is currently unknown how the Mountain Men knew the names of the Delinquents.