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Required Texts<\/strong><\/p>\n

Peter Bayers, Imperial Ascent: Mountaineering, Masculinity & Empire<\/em><\/p>\n

Ren\u00e9 Daumal, Mount Analogue: A Tale of Non-Euclidean and Symbolically Authentic Mountaineering Adventures<\/em><\/p>\n

Heinrich Harrer, Seven Years in Tibet<\/em><\/p>\n

Heinrich Harrer, The White Spider: The Story of the North Face of the Eiger<\/em><\/p>\n

Maurice Herzog, Annapurna: The First Conquest of an 8000-Meter Peak<\/em><\/p>\n

Charles Houston & Robert Bates, K2: The Savage Mountain<\/em><\/p>\n

Maurice Isserman & Stewart Weaver, Fallen Giants: A History of Himalayan Mountaineering from the Age of Empire to the Age of Extremes<\/em><\/p>\n

Jon Krakauer, Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster<\/em><\/p>\n

Robert Macfarlane, Mountains of the Mind: Adventures in Reaching the Summit<\/em><\/p>\n

Sherry Ortner, Life and Death on Mount Everest: Sherpas and Himalayan Mountaineering<\/em><\/p>\n

David Roberts, True Summit: What Really Happened on the Legendary Ascent of Annapurna<\/em><\/p>\n

Sources for Other Assigned Readings<\/strong><\/p>\n

Bernard Debarbieux and Gilles Rudaz,\u00a0The Mountain: A Political History from the\u00a0Enlightenment to the Present<\/em><\/p>\n

Daphne du Maurier,\u00a0Don’t Look Now: Selected Stories of Daphne du Maurier<\/em><\/p>\n

Marjorie Hope Nicolson,\u00a0Mountain Gloom and Mountain Glory: The Development of the Aesthetics of the Infinite<\/em><\/p>\n

Mary Louise Pratt,\u00a0Imperial Eyes: Travel Writing and Transculturation<\/em><\/p>\n

Susan R. Schrepfer,\u00a0Nature’s Altars: Mountains, Gender, and American Environmentalism<\/em><\/p>\n

Other Readings<\/strong><\/p>\n

On the academic end of the spectrum<\/em><\/p>\n

Wade Davis,\u00a0Into the Silence: The Great War, Mallory, and the Conquest of Everest<\/em><\/p>\n

Peter & Leni Gillman,\u00a0The Wildest Dream: The Biography of George Mallory<\/em><\/p>\n

Peter Hansen,\u00a0The Summits of Modern Man: Mountaineering After the Enlightenment<\/em><\/p>\n

Mike Searle,\u00a0Colliding Continents: A Geological Exploration of the Himalaya, Karakoram, & Tibet<\/em><\/p>\n

On the literary-autobiographical-memoir-popular end of the spectrum<\/em><\/p>\n

Stacy Allison & Peter Carlin,\u00a0Beyond the Limits: A Woman’s Triumph on Everest<\/em><\/p>\n

Conrad Anker & David Roberts,\u00a0The Lost Explorer: Finding Mallory on Mount Everest<\/em><\/p>\n

Robert Bates & Charles Houston,\u00a0Give Miles High<\/em><\/p>\n

Chris Bennington & Charles Clarke,\u00a0Tibet’s Secret Mountain: The Triumph of Sepu Kangri<\/em><\/p>\n

Arlene Blum,\u00a0Annapurna: A Woman’s Place<\/em><\/p>\n

Walter Bonatti,\u00a0The Mountains of My Life<\/em><\/p>\n

Chris Bonington,\u00a0Annapurna South Face<\/em><\/p>\n

Chris Bonington,\u00a0Boundless Horizons: The Autobiography of Chris Bonington<\/em><\/p>\n

Anatoli Boukreev,\u00a0Above the Clouds: The Diaries of a High-Altitude Mountaineer<\/em><\/p>\n

Anatoli Boukreev & G. Weston DeWalk,\u00a0The Climb: Tragic Ambitions on Everest<\/em><\/p>\n

Graham Bowley,\u00a0No Way Down: Life and Death on K2<\/em><\/p>\n

W.E. Bowman,\u00a0The Ascent of Rum Doodle<\/em><\/p>\n

David Breshears,\u00a0Last Climb: The Legendary Everest Expeditions of George Mallory<\/em><\/p>\n

Herman Buhl,\u00a0Nanga Parbat Pilgrimage: The Lonely Challenge<\/em><\/p>\n

Greg Child,\u00a0Thin Air: Encounters in the\u00a0<\/em>Himalayas<\/i><\/p>\n

Maria Coffey,\u00a0Where the Mountain Casts Its Shadow: The Dark Side of Extreme Adventure<\/em><\/p>\n

Jim Curran,\u00a0K2: The Story of the Savage Mountain<\/em><\/p>\n

Jim Curran,\u00a0K2, Triumph and Tragedy<\/em><\/p>\n

Matt Dickinson,\u00a0The Other Side of Everest<\/em><\/p>\n

Kurt Diemberger,\u00a0The Endless Knot: K2, Mountain of Dreams and Destiny<\/em><\/p>\n

FUKADA Ky\u016bya,\u00a0One Hundred Mountains of Japan<\/em><\/p>\n

Lene Gammelgaard,\u00a0Climbing High<\/em><\/p>\n

Andrew Greig,\u00a0Summit Fever<\/em><\/p>\n

Jochen Hemmleb, Eric Simonsson & Dave Hahn,\u00a0Detectives on Everest: The 2001 Mallory & Irvine Research Expedition<\/em><\/p>\n

Jochen Hemmleb, Larry Johnson & Eric Simonsson,\u00a0Ghosts of Everest: The Search for Mallory and Irvine<\/em><\/p>\n

Thomas Hornbein,\u00a0Everest: The West Ridge<\/em><\/p>\n

Michale Kodas,\u00a0High Crimes: The Fate of Everest in an Age of Greed<\/em><\/p>\n

Jon Krakauer,\u00a0Eiger Dreams<\/em><\/p>\n

Goran Kropp,\u00a0Ultimate High: My Everest Odyssey<\/em><\/p>\n

Nick Heil,\u00a0Dark Summit: The True Story of Everest’s Most Controversial Season<\/em><\/p>\n

Laurence Leamer,\u00a0Ascent: The Spiritual and\u00a0Physical Quest of\u00a0Legendary Mountaineer Willi Unseold<\/em><\/p>\n

Bernadette McDonald,\u00a0Brotherhood of the Rope: The Biography of Charles Houston<\/em><\/p>\n

Reinhold Messner,\u00a0The Crystal Horizon<\/em><\/p>\n

Reinhold Messner,\u00a0Free Spirit: A Climber’s Life<\/em><\/p>\n

Christopher Norton,\u00a0Everest Revealed: The Private Diaries and Sketches of Edward Norton, 1922-24<\/em><\/p>\n

Rick Ridgeway,\u00a0The Last Step: The American Ascent of K2<\/em><\/p>\n

Robert Roper,\u00a0Fatal Mountaineer<\/em><\/p>\n

John Roskelley,\u00a0Nandi Devi: The Tragic Expedition<\/em><\/p>\n

Galen Rowell,\u00a0In the Throne Room of the Mountain Gods<\/em><\/p>\n

Julie Summers,\u00a0Fearless on Everest: The Quest for Sandy Irvine<\/em><\/p>\n

Colin Thubron,\u00a0To a Mountain in Tibet<\/em><\/p>\n

Jim Whittaker,\u00a0A Life on the Edge: Memoirs of Everest and Beyond<\/em><\/p>\n

Freddie Wilkinson,\u00a0One Mountain Thousand Summits: The Untold Story of Tragedy and True Heroism on K2<\/em><\/p>\n

Clint Willis,\u00a0The Boys of Everest: Chris Bonington and the Tragedy of Climbing’s Greatest Generation<\/em><\/p>\n

Stephen Venables,\u00a0A Slender Thread: Escaping Disaster in the Himalaya<\/em><\/p>\n

Stephen Venables,\u00a0Everest: Alone at the Summit<\/em><\/p>\n

Ed Viesturs & David Roberts,\u00a0K2: Life and Death on the World’s Most\u00a0Dangerous Mountain<\/em><\/p>\n

Ed Viesturs,\u00a0No\u00a0Shortcuts\u00a0to the Top<\/em><\/p>\n

Peter Zukerman,\u00a0Buried in the Sky: The Extraordinary Story of the Sherpa Climbers on K2’s Deadliest Day<\/em><\/p>\n

Films<\/strong><\/p>\n

Documentaries<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Above All Else: The Everest Dream\u00a0<\/em>(1999)<\/p>\n

Beyond the Edge<\/em> (2014)<\/p>\n

Blindsight<\/em> (2006)<\/p>\n

The Dark Glow of the Mountains<\/em> (1984)<\/p>\n

80 Meters Below the Summit<\/em> (1997)<\/p>\n

Everest: Beyond the Limit<\/em> (2006-2009, TV series)<\/p>\n

Everest: The Death Zone<\/em> (1998)<\/p>\n

Everest: 50 Years on the Mountain<\/em> (2003)<\/p>\n

Everest: IMAX\u00a0<\/em>(1998)<\/p>\n

Hillary and Tenzing: Climbing to the Roof of the World<\/em> (2003)<\/p>\n

Into the Thin Air of Everest: Mountain of Dreams, Mountain of Doom\u00a0<\/em>(1999)<\/p>\n

The Man Who Skied\u00a0Down Everest\u00a0<\/em>(1975)<\/p>\n

Meru<\/em> (2015)<\/p>\n

The Summit<\/em> (2013)<\/p>\n

Team Everest<\/em>: A Himalayan Journey<\/em> (2008)<\/p>\n

Touching the Void<\/em> (2003)<\/p>\n

Vertical Frontier: A History of the Art, Sport and Philosophy of\u00a0Rock Climbing in\u00a0<\/em>Yosemite\u00a0<\/em>(2002)<\/p>\n

The Wildest Dream<\/em> (2011)<\/p>\n

Feature films<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Cliffhanger<\/em> (1993)<\/p>\n

The Eiger Sanction<\/em> (1975)<\/p>\n

K2<\/em> (1991)<\/p>\n

Nordwand<\/em> [North Face] (2010)<\/p>\n

Vertical Limit<\/em> (2002)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Required Texts Peter Bayers, Imperial Ascent: Mountaineering, Masculinity & Empire Ren\u00e9 Daumal, Mount Analogue: A Tale of Non-Euclidean and Symbolically Authentic Mountaineering Adventures Heinrich Harrer, Seven Years in Tibet Heinrich Harrer, The White Spider: The Story of the North Face of the Eiger Maurice Herzog, Annapurna: The First Conquest of an 8000-Meter Peak Charles Houston…<\/p>\n

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