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Geowissenschaften. --- Mountains. --- Mountains -- Europe. --- SCIENCE / General. --- Hills --- Mountain peaks --- Mountain ranges --- Mountain ridges --- Mounts (Mountains) --- Orography --- Orology --- Peaks --- Pinnacles --- Ranges, Mountain --- Ridges, Mountain --- Summits (Mountains) --- Uplands

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Mountains. --- Hills --- Mountain peaks --- Mountain ranges --- Mountain ridges --- Mounts (Mountains) --- Orography --- Orology --- Peaks --- Pinnacles --- Ranges, Mountain --- Ridges, Mountain --- Summits (Mountains) --- Uplands

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"Covers major water and ice issues pertaining to planetary dynamics, sustainable development, and new thinking on mountain ice and water that help plan for an uncertain future in the face of climate change."--Back cover.

Hydrologic cycle. --- Mountains. --- Hills --- Mountain peaks --- Mountain ranges --- Mountain ridges --- Mounts (Mountains) --- Orography --- Orology --- Peaks --- Pinnacles --- Ranges, Mountain --- Ridges, Mountain --- Summits (Mountains) --- Uplands --- Cycle, Hydrologic --- Hydrological cycle --- Water cycle --- Cycles --- Hydrology

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How do high mountain ranges form on the face of the Earth? This question has intrigued some of the greatest philosophers and scientists, going back as far as the ancient Greeks. Devil in the Mountain is the story of one scientist, author Simon Lamb, and his quest for the key to this great geological mystery. Lamb and a small team of geologists have spent much of the last decade exploring the rugged Bolivian Andes, the second highest mountain range on Earth--a region rocked by earthquakes and violent volcanic eruptions. The author's account is both travelogue and detective story, describing how he and his colleagues have pursued a trail of clues in the mountains, hidden beneath the rocky landscape. Here, the local silver miners strive to appease the spirit they call Tio-the devil in the mountain. Traveling through Bolivia's back roads, the team has to cope with the extremes of the environment, and survive in a country on the verge of civil war. But the backdrop to all these adventures is the bigger story of the Earth and how geologists have gone about uncovering its secrets. We follow the tracks of the dinosaurs, who never saw the Andes but left their mark on the shores of a vast inland sea that covered this part of South America more than sixty-five million years ago, long before the mountains existed. And we learn how to find long lost rivers that once flowed through the landscape, how continents are twisted and torn apart, and where volcanoes come from. By the end of their journey, Lamb and his team turn up extraordinary evidence pointing not only to the fundamental instability of the Earth's surface, but also to unexpected and profound links in the workings of our planet.

Geology --- Geology - General --- Earth & Environmental Sciences --- Andes. --- Andean Mountain Range --- Andean Mountains --- Andean Range --- Andes Mountain Range --- Andes Mountain Ranges --- Andes Mountains --- Andes Range --- Andes Ranges --- Anti (Mountains) --- Antis (Mountains) --- Cordillera de los Andes --- Los Andes --- The Andes

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Dans nos sociétés modernes en crise, crise économique, crise des valeurs, l'homme est à la recherche du "paradis perdu" en quête d'un "ailleurs", d'identités sociales multiples, de territoires différents, plus porteurs de sens. L'émergence de "nouveaux" loisirs sportifs, fondamentalement opposés à la conception traditionnelle et "coubertinienne" du sport, permet aujourd'hui, à des pratiquants de plus en plus nombreux - le temps d'une activité sportive de week-end, de petites ou grandes vacances - de devenir des "aventuriers du quotidien" en assouvissant leur besoin de découverte, de plaisir immédiat, d'émotion, de liberté et d'harmonie, de convivialité renouvelée en petits groupes, de nouveaux rapports avec la nature, un besoin à la fois de distinction et de reconnaissance. Les auteurs en prenant l'exemple de quelques pratiques sportives de pleine nature en montagne (escalade, ski de fond, rafting,, canoë-kayak, parapente...) mettent en évidence le poids des représentations, de l'imaginaire, dans le déclenchement de ces pratiques et leur influence sur des comportements plus existentiels, plus individualistes, plus environnementalistes... mais aussi les contradictions de bien de ces comportements et les distances qui pouvaient exister entre le rêve et la réalité. Si ces "nouveaux" loisirs sportifs font la preuve de leur pertinence sociale et de leur puissance économique, alors c'est tout le secteur institutionnel, associatif et marchand, qui est interpellé avec la prise en compte de la nécessaire adaptation de l'offre à la demande, du management des innovations et de la concurrence dont on sait qu'elle opère aujourd'hui à l'échelle internationale.

Sports --- Mountains --- Montagnes --- Sociological aspects --- Recreational use --- Aspect sociologique --- Utilisation pour les loisirs --- Outdoor recreation --- Recreational surveys --- Recreation surveys --- Surveys --- Recreation --- Recreation areas --- Hills --- Mountain peaks --- Mountain ranges --- Mountain ridges --- Mounts (Mountains) --- Orography --- Orology --- Peaks --- Pinnacles --- Ranges, Mountain --- Ridges, Mountain --- Summits (Mountains) --- Uplands --- Mountains - Recreational use - France. --- Outdoor recreation - France. --- Recreational surveys - France. --- pertinence sociale --- puissance économique --- nouveau loisir --- pleine nature --- convivialité --- activité sportive