The Black Hills of South Dakota: The Religious, Spiritual, Cultural and Traditional Embodiment of Mountains within Sioux/Lakota Tribes Throughout the world, across all mountain ranges, and differing ethnicities, mountains have provided symbolism, religion, traditional cultural practice, and a way of life for all that call mountains home. While some mountains are vast, others are smaller,…
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High Crimes book review
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Touching the Void Film Review
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This movie is insane! It unfolds more like a documentary with re-enactment, actually that’s exactly what it is. The documentary interviews all of the men involved which are Simon Yates, Joe Simpson, and Richard Hawking. In a strange or perhaps fated series of events, Simon and Joe travel to Peru in hopes to successfully complete…
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Final Paper Proposal
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For my final paper, I’d like to study and observe Native American tribes and their relationships with the mountains that were once their homes such as the Sioux with The Black Hills of South Dakota and the Blackfeet Nation of Montana (mainly because there is a lot of material). I wanted to compare and contrast…
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Article
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http://adventureblog.nationalgeographic.com/2016/04/18/can-two-climbers-on-snapchat-improve-everests-struggling-reputation/ I really enjoyed the article because it ties the disaster of 1996 into the technology era that Everest has fallen victim to. The author does a fairly decent and entertaining job of helping a reader understand why Everest has taken on such a negative context, he does it in a way that any audience…
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Week 14
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The reading regarding the Postcolonialism in the Culture of Ascent felt very much like a refresher of material that has been discussed weeks prior but also had interesting facts that I had not been aware of. It has been heavily discussed in class and from every angle the reasoning behind commercialism within mountaineering, but what…
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True Summit
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The very beginning of True Summit started as most of the mountaineering books do, with an account of an ascent, the history of high-altitude mountaineering and the countries involved in first ascents. As the book started to progress, I felt that my perception of Herzog and the self-described euphoric and pure experience on his Annapurna…
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Week 12
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Chapter nine of Fallen Giants was a very interesting chapter and one that I found very easy to follow and it also caught my attention. The shift from a “pure” and isolated experience free from real world scenarios and stressors such as politics and the possibility of war did not seem exist within the high…