It was not until the nineteen-fifties that Nepal opened its borders to foreigners (Ortner, 30). Following this opening up of Nepal’s borders, one of the largest sources of income in the country has been tourism and adventure travel. Although many of Nepal’s Sherpa people had left for India for work, and had began porter work…
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Final Paper
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For my final paper topic, I will be writing on the economic effects of tourism in Nepal because of the rise in tourism due to mountaineering and adventure travel. Source List: “Tourism, Change, and Continuity in the Mount Everest Region, Nepal” Stanley F. Stevens Geographical Review Oct. 1993 “Adventure Travel and Sustainable Tourism in the Peripheral Economy…
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Sharp End
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http://www.alpinist.com/doc/ALP51/11-sharp-end-katie-ives This article focuses on the misunderstanding on an international scale regarding places like Tibet and Nepal, and the people who live there. The article points out how a lot of literature and film about Himalayan mountaineering will describe the region like an icy desert, where the Sherpa people were viewed as servants and now…
Book Review
Eiger Dreams
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The subtitle of Eiger Dreams is far more descriptive of the book than the main title is: Ventures Among Men and Mountains. That is really what Jon Krakauer’s book is about. The book Eiger Dreams is really a collection of different articles written by Jon Krakauer that he compiled together, covering the broad subject of mountaineering, and…
Film Review
Everest: IMAX film review
by Josh •
Everest: IMAX is the kind of documentary you would expect to get out of a forty-five minute documentary released in 1998. The movie is pretty straightforward, it follows three climbers that go to Everest with an IMAX film crew. The climbers are Jamling Tenzing Norgay, the son of Tenzing Norgay, Ed Viesturs from the United States, and…
Reading Response
Postcolonialism and Orientalism
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Reading Response
True Summit
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True Summit definitely read like we had already discussed earlier this semester. But it is helpful to bring to light just how inaccurate Herzog’s account of climbing Annapurna actually was. It gives more truth to Herzog’s quote about Annapurna, “Annapurna is a sort of novel. It’s a novel, but a true novel.” True Summit shows just how inconsistent and hard…
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Life and Death on Mount Everest
by Josh •
One thing I really enjoy about Sherry Ortner’s monograph is how well she considers the Sherpa culture, as one of the key factors of their role in high-altitude mountaineering. I think she does an excellent job of making it clear that Sherpa culture and mountaineering are very related, and have that unique dyanmic which at…
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Reading Response 11
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Into Thin Air brings to mind a number of different aspects of mountaineering that must be addressed. For one thing, Into Thin Air is notably different than other mountaineering accounts, like Annapurna and The White Spider because it is much more modern and more recent account. Because of that, the dynamics of mountaineering are completely different than they were in these…
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Paper Proposal
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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…