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The Summits of Modern Man
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ISBN: 0674074556 0674074521 9780674074521 9780674047990 0674047990 9780674074552 Year: 2013 Publisher: Cambridge, MA

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The history of mountaineering has long served as a metaphor for civilization triumphant. Once upon a time, the Alps were an inaccessible habitat of specters and dragons, until heroic men-pioneers of enlightenment-scaled their summits, classified their strata and flora, and banished the phantoms forever. A fascinating interdisciplinary study of the first ascents of the major Alpine peaks and Mount Everest, The Summits of Modern Man surveys the far-ranging significance of our encounters with the world's most alluring and forbidding heights. Our obsession with "who got to the top first" may have begun in 1786, the year Jacques Balmat and Michel-Gabriel Paccard climbed Mont Blanc and inaugurated an era in which Romantic notions of the sublime spurred climbers' aspirations. In the following decades, climbing lost its revolutionary cachet as it became associated instead with bourgeois outdoor leisure. Still, the mythic stories of mountaineers, threaded through with themes of imperialism, masculinity, and ascendant Western science and culture, seized the imagination of artists and historians well into the twentieth century, providing grist for stage shows, poetry, films, and landscape paintings. Today, we live on the threshold of a hot planet, where melting glaciers and rising sea levels create ambivalence about the conquest of nature. Long after Hillary and Tenzing's ascent of Everest, though, the image of modern man supreme on the mountaintop retains its currency. Peter Hansen's exploration of these persistent images indicates how difficult it is to imagine our relationship with nature in terms other than domination.


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Backcountry Avalanche Safety
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ISBN: 9781771602365 1771602368 9781771602358 177160235X Year: 2017 Publisher: [Place of publication not identified] RMB Rocky Mountain Books

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The summits of modern man : mountaineering after the enlightenment
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ISBN: 9780674047990 Year: 2013 Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. Harvard University Press

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Pilgrims of the Vertical
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ISBN: 0674058607 9780674058606 9780674052871 0674052870 0674257103 9780674257108 Year: 2010 Publisher: Cambridge, MA

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Few things suggest rugged individualism as powerfully as the solitary mountaineer testing his or her mettle in the rough country. Yet the long history of wilderness sport complicates this image. In this surprising story of the premier rock-climbing venue in the United States, Pilgrims of the Vertical offers insight into the nature of wilderness adventure. From the founding era of mountain climbing in Victorian Europe to present-day climbing gyms, Pilgrims of the Vertical shows how ever-changing alignments of nature, technology, gender, sport, and consumer culture have shaped climbers’ relations to nature and to each other. Even in Yosemite Valley, a premier site for sporting and environmental culture since the 1800s, elite athletes cannot be entirely disentangled from the many men and women seeking recreation and camaraderie. Following these climbers through time, Joseph Taylor uncovers lessons about the relationship of individuals to groups, sport to society, and nature to culture. He also shows how social and historical contexts influenced adventurers’ choices and experiences, and why some became leading environmental activists—including John Muir, David Brower, and Yvon Chouinard. In a world in which wild nature is increasingly associated with play, and virtuous play with environmental values, Pilgrims of the Vertical explains when and how these ideas developed, and why they became intimately linked to consumerism.

Gifts from the mountain
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ISBN: 1282300091 9786612300097 1576755436 9781576755433 9781609944308 1609944305 1576754693 9781576754696 9781282300095 9781576754696 Year: 2007 Publisher: San Francisco Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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The frantic demands of a 24/7 world leave many on autopilot, too weary to pause and savor simple ideas that can make life less complex and more meaningful. Inspired by the perspectives gained from hiking, the author offers practical advice and profound wisdom within this illustrated gift book.


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Der Mönch und seine Berge
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ISBN: 3869459212 9783869459219 9783959480598 Year: 2016 Publisher: Nordhausen

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Apostles of the Alps
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ISBN: 1469625059 9781469625058 9781469625041 1469625040 9781469625034 1469625032 9798890845412 Year: 2016 Publisher: Chapel Hill

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"Though the Alps may appear to be a peaceful place, the famed mountains once provided the backdrop for a political, environmental, and cultural battle as Germany and Austria struggled to modernize. Tait Keller examines the mountains' threefold role in transforming the two countries, as people sought respite in the mountains, transformed and shaped them according to their needs, and over time began to view them as national symbols and icons of individualism" --


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The naked mountaineer
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ISBN: 0803286511 0803286538 9780803286535 1322073066 9781322073064 9780803286511 9780803286528 080328652X 9780803248793 0803248792 Year: 2014 Publisher: Lincoln

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"From Western Washington to Italy to Indonesia this is a fun and delightful book. For anyone who has traveled or wished to travel to remote places Steve Sieberson's The Naked Mountaineer gives an entertaining and humorous account of his mountain adventures and the characters he met along the way."-Mike Mahanay, president of the Washington Alpine Club

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Surviving Logan
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ISBN: 1771601930 9781771601931 9781771601924 Year: 2016 Publisher: [Victoria, British Columbia]

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Le roman de montagne ou l'alpinisme dans le roman
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ISBN: 203038013X 9782030380130 Year: 1977 Publisher: Paris Larousse

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