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…
Week 8
Week 8 Reading Response
by mkg •
Seven Years in Tibet started off as a very eager read for me! I really enjoyed the introduction and the explanation as to why Harrer took to the mountains; it wasn’t because they were simply there or he was looking for something that would terrify him into finding the meaning of life, but rather, he…
Reading Response, Week 7
Week 7
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Social Climbing on Annapurna seems anything but what the title conveys. Throughout discussion and class, we’ve touched on gender and climbing, but I guess I hadn’t really thought too in depth regarding the politics and stigmas that women faced not only from society but also from the climbing community, native peoples, and their respective parties…
Reading Response
Week Six- White Spider
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Throughout the book of White Spider, I felt a sense of politeness and humbleness that possessed each climber that in one way or another, had made a successful climb whether big, small, or losing their lives in pursuit of this ascent. These feelings of respect to past climbers and past explorers who had dared to…
Reading Response, Week 5
Wanting the Children & Wanting K2
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I especially liked the reading regarding women, motherhood, and the workforce because it touches on an area that has not been talked about within discussions but is nonetheless a discussion that is now common and important within the workforce as more and more women enter the working world. What I found most interesting and something…
Reading Response, Week 4
Fallen Giants
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The beginning of Fallen Giants began very slow, with a lot of information regarding mountains, a goddess, and elevations that I found quite hard to keep track of. I did however find it very interesting and thoughtful that explorers such as Adolf Schlagintweit gave offerings before venturing into the Traill’s Pass as a sign of…
Reading Response, Week 3
Weekly Response Week 3
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Sublime: awe-inspiringly grand, excellent, or impressive. The very definition of sublime not only defines what it means to scale a vast range of mountains but it also subverts the other emotions that come along with climbing a mountain such as fear and panic; emotions that come more naturally to a human being when faced with…