Heres a link from the Red Bull website, for anyone whose interested in the gender issues surrounding mountaineering. A 22 yr old female just attempted to climb the North Face of the Eiger. She’s the first female to ascend this particular route on the North Face, and describes why it is so important. Enjoy! http://www.redbull.com/us/en/adventure/stories/1331746365694/sasha-digiulian-climbs-eiger-interview?wtk=us000028&linkId=22051896
Monthly Archives: March 2016
Final Papers
Final Paper Topic – Bryant Lymburn
by Bryant Lymburn •
For my final paper I was thinking that I could explore the quest of people who are conducting or have done ski mountaineering on peaks greater than 8000 meters. I may need to lower this elevation to account for more skiers conducting these items. Sources: The Man who skied down Eversest – movie Skiing everest (2009)…
Reading Response, Week 9
Shit Happened on Everest & K2: For Different Reasons
by th •
I really enjoyed both these readings this week. Until K2: The Savage Mountain, I had never heard of the incredible, and tragic, story of the1953 American expedition. This story was one tale of bad luck after another, yet at the same time, a story of incredible heroism and friendship. Charles Houston and Robert Bates did…
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K2 the savage mountain
by nap •
K2 The Savage Mountain offered a fresh and honest literally account of the first American expedition to K2. A major contrast to a majority of the texts that we have read so far in this class, which highlighted individual glory and the pursuit of masculine adventure high in mountains as well as bringing pride and…
Reading Response
K2 and “Shit”
by The Crooked Spoke •
The U.S.A. emerged from W.W.II as a technological and economic power on the rise, and it wasn’t long before some of this momentum shifted to the high alpine. A first major feather in America’s cap was to be K2; not quite the biggest but definitely the baddest of the 8,000 meter peaks. By this point in…
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Project Proposal
by mmg •
Being that I am very interested in the topic of gender and because my other passions, falconry and soccer, have little to do with mountaineering for my final project proposal I want to analyze further the role that gender plays in the sport of mountaineering. More specifically I want to look at how gender roles…
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Paper Proposal
by mkg •
Week 9
Week 9 Response
by mkg •
As we have touched on in class, mountaineering requires a vast amount of experience in climbing, environmental assimilation, and a sense of adventure; but as a human being I’ve always asked myself in class would it be at all possible for a person such as myself, who is very inexperienced in mountaineering and clueless in…
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Paper Proposal
by Josh •
For my final paper, I want to write about the environmental and economic impacts of tourism caused by mountaineering. I would like to focus specifically on Mount Everest to give some focus to the paper and because there has been so much tourism to Everest in the recent years. Proposed sources: “Growth of Tourism in…