False Summit
The race to climb Everest catapulted mountain climbing, with its accompanying images of conquest and sport, into the public sphere on a global scale. False Summit unpacks gender politics in the expedition narratives and memoirs of mountaineers in the Himalayas and the Karakoram.… Celý popis ↓
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False Summit
The race to climb Everest catapulted mountain climbing, with its accompanying images of conquest and sport, into the public sphere on a global scale. False Summit unpacks gender politics in the expedition narratives and memoirs of mountaineers in the Himalayas and the Karakoram. But as a metaphor for the pinnacle of human achievement, mountaineering remains the preserve of traditional white male heroism.
Julie Rak proposes that the genre has itself reached a false summit - a peak that proves not to be the pinnacle - and that mountaineering is not ready to welcome other ways of climbing or other kinds of climbers. Why are women still a minority in the world's highest places? For more than two centuries mountaineering, as an activity and as an ideal, has helped shape how the self is understood within the context of conquest, adventure, and proximity to risk.
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