For the Final (and only paper for that manner) I propose to evaluate the history of developing tourism and commercialization around mountaineering, including but not limited to, the greater ranges. My thesis will be centered around why there has been a tourist interest, and how that has developed in the last few decades; and possibly how this is effecting professional and more hardcore mountaineers and the approach to climbing as a whole.

My proposed sources are:

Jon Krakauer, Into Thin Air

Sherry Ortner, Life and Death on Mount Everest: Sherpas and Himalayan Mountaineering

Susan Houge Mackenzie and John H. Kerr, Client experiences in mountaineering tourism and implications for outdoor leaders

Pierre-Olaf Schut, Sport as a Major Player in the Development of Tourism: The History of Mountaineering in the Pelvoux Massif, France, from 1861 to 1914

Paul Beediea and Simon Hudsonb, Emergence of mountain-based adventure tourism

Yang Mu and Sanjay Nepal, High Mountain Adventure Tourism: Trekkers’ Perceptions of Risk and Death in Mt. Everest Region, Nepal

Susan Houge Mackenzie and John H. Kerr,  A (mis)guided adventure tourism experience: An autoethnographic analysis of mountaineering in Bolivia