For my final paper, I will be looking at how commercialization of Everest and the Himalayas has positively and negatively impacted the native Sherpa people. The question that my paper will be trying to answer is whether commercialization has led to the exploitation of the Sherpas on Everest climbing expeditions and whether the dangerous work justifies the…

http://www.forbes.com/2003/06/11/cz_jc_0611feat.html   This article gives light to several issues that we have talked about in this class thus far from Edmund Hillary’s perspective in 1999. The interview with Hillary gives his opinions on several modern mountaineering issued facing Everest, and Nepal. Continuing it talks about Norgay and Hillary friendship after the 1953 summit of Everest,…

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…

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…

I am still trying to figure out a thesis for the paper, but I know that i want to research how various cultures view the mountains, i e religious views and philosophy. I really enjoyed the first chapter of Mount Analogue, when it was describing how different cultures use mountains in their legends, such as…

My final project on will be on the development and progression of women’s rights and privileges within the sport of mountaineering. I will seek to show how as women’s rights advanced in mainstream society so to did women’s rights in the sport of mountaineering. It will touch on not only how far these rights have…

So…my topic has shifted in a…somewhat substantial way. I am no longer focused on the evolution of risk, but on the access to this risk. That is, I’d like to examine the complications of access on many scales, from Mt. Everest to the Gallatin Valley. I’ll do so by calling on examples from each scale,…

This is a fun and easy read about a group of mountaineers who travel to south-east Asia in order to find the highest mountain in the area and ascend it. the article is supplemented by a six-minute video. I chose this article because It shows that even today, there are still some “firsts” to be climbed.…

For my final paper topic, I will be writing on the economic effects of tourism in Nepal because of the rise in tourism due to mountaineering and adventure travel. Source List: “Tourism, Change, and Continuity in the Mount Everest Region, Nepal” Stanley F. Stevens Geographical Review Oct. 1993 “Adventure Travel and Sustainable Tourism in the Peripheral Economy…