Democracy's Mountain: Longs Peak and the Unfullfilled Promises of America's National Parks Volume 5 Alexander Ruth M.
Democracy's Mountain: Longs Peak and the Unfullfilled Promises of America's National Parks Volume 5 Alexander Ruth M. At 14,259 feet, Longs Peak towers over Colorado's northern Front Range. Careless…
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Democracy's Mountain: Longs Peak and the Unfullfilled Promises of America's National Parks Volume 5 Alexander Ruth M.
At 14,259 feet, Longs Peak towers over Colorado's northern Front Range. Careless and unlucky climbers have experienced serious injury and death on the peak, while their activities, equipment, and trash have damaged fragile alpine resources. A prized location for mountaineering since the 1870s, Longs has been a place of astonishing climbing feats--and, unsurprisingly, of significant risk and harm.
Alexander shows how Rocky Mountain National Park, like the National Park Service (NPS), has struggled to contend with three fundamental obligations--to facilitate visitor enjoyment, protect natural resources, and manage the park as a site of democracy. As a site of outdoor adventure attracting mostly white people, Longs has mirrored the United States' tenacious racial divides, even into the twenty-first century.In telling the history of Longs Peak and its climbers, Ruth M. Too often, it