According to scripture, God called Moses to Mount Sinai, where he gave instructions ... Deuteronomy says there's a river that comes down the mountain right next to the altar, and it's right ...

“This cannot be the real Mount Sinai ... down at the landscape below, it was easy to see how hundreds of thousands, maybe more, were able to assemble and witness what, as instructed, Moses ...

I am not religious, but for so many, Mt Sinai holds a lot of spiritual significance; in the Torah, Bible, and the Quran, one can find the story of Moses ... but coming back down they were crucial.