Orožen was among the initiators of the Slovenian Mountaineering Society establishment and its first chairman, as well as the initiator of the mountaineering gazette. For him, mountaineering was a way to discover mountains with the natural and cultural heritage. In his pedagogical thought, which was reflected primarily in debates published in the Teacher’s Comrade (“Učiteljski tovariš”) he substantiated experiential learning of local studies."Lessons should rest on many questions that lead students in solving the required geographical assignment by themselves. The knowledge that the student gained by himself, becomes his real belonging and arouses in him the pleasure for work and the interest for the subject, which is very important in geographical teaching. This shows that the teacher should make use of heuristic methods in geography and then make sure, that his students become self-taught and in later years expand the required geographical knowledge themselves, "he wrote in 1900. He perceived the mountaineering gazette as a popular scientific magazine, and during his time in the Slovenian Mountaineering Society it mainly was. One hundred years later, it is very interesting to compare Orožen’s views and the basis of the profession, which in Slovenia is unfortunately poorly known and recognized, much less used - this is the interpretation of heritage. It is a highly interdisciplinary profession that is considered, particularly by authors in the United States, in the wider context of strategic communications with an emphasis on values. In Europe it is considered mainly as a humanistic concept of a lifelong learning based on the experience of the natural and cultural heritage and the creation of a personal, in-depth relationship. Orožen’s more than one hundred-year-old thoughts on teaching local studies with activities in nature, especially mountains, are reflected in the context of the modern professional heritage interpretation as surprisingly farsighted. Especially nowadays when most visitors experience the world of mountains only as a sports range, without the desire for discovery, learning and understanding