Journalist report: Many Americans believe Olympus is a mythical mountain

Many Americans believe that Mount Oympus — like Atlantis — is a mythical location that exists only in Greek mythology, according to Greek journalist and director Athina Krikeli.

Krikeli, who has lived in the United States for the past 25 years, spoke about her experience on the subject, to the Athens News Agency radio station 104.9 FM. During the past three years, Krikeli has been working on a series of documentaries with the goal of making the famous mountain — the tallest in Greece — known worldwide.

The journalist and director and her associates in the production company “Ellopia Films USA”, have completed five documentaries on Mount Olympus; three of which have won awards in international competitions.

On Saturday, March 12, an event was held in Plaka of Litohoro in Pieria, to celebrate winning 13 gold statuettes for the first three documentaries of “Mt. Olympus the Series”.

Macedonia the official gate to Mount Olympus

The fifth documentary; which has recently been finished, is called “Macedonia the official gate to Mount Olympus”.

“Our aim is to create a total of 12 documentaries, as many as the gods of Olympus. In early July, the shooting of the sixth documentary called My Olympus, begins,” Krikeli told 104.9 FM.

“I have been living in America for many years and I have been working with National Geographic and I’ve traveled a lot across the planet. I have realized that Olympus is generally a very controversial subject around which there is a cloud of confusion. Most believe it is a mythical mountain that does not exist. That it is something like Atlantis,” the director stressed.

“After showing the first short documentary about Olympus, initially in New York and then in some universities in America, I realized that the reaction everywhere was the same: But does Olympus exist? Is it not a mythical mountain?”