Mountaineering in the Greater Ranges, such as the Himalayas, became an increasingly popular sport through the twentieth century and continues to be enjoyable for many climbers today. Climbing high altitude mountains such as Mount Everest, the tallest in the world, has caught the attention of many, and created its own industry. However, as this industry…
Book Review
The Mountains of My Life review
by mel •
The Mountains of My Life, written by Walter Bonatti is a 427 page memoir detailing his many ascents and the struggles to go with them, as well as the victories, and his emotions throughout the process of each. His climbing career was filled with many climbs including three North Face climbs on the Grandes Jorasses,…
Film Review
Meru Review
by mel •
“Meru” is adventure and disaster porn at its finest, especially for Bozeman residents. Conrad Anker, a current Bozemanite introduces his twenty year dream to climb the ‘Shark’s Fin’ on Meru, due to this being a dream of his late mentor. This documentary follows the adventure and two expeditions of Conrad Anker, Jimmy Chin, and Renan…
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Final Paper topic and Sources
by mel •
My final paper topic is going to be the environmental impacts on mountains from mountaineering. One of my most useful sources for this essay with be Thin Ice by Mark Bowen, which will hit on the changing ice caps and its clues to the changing climate in reference to high altitude and the mountains. It…
Links, Reading Response
Loving our mountains to death
by mel •
http://www.alpinist.com/doc/web14x/wfeature-sustainable-summits-aac I picked an alpinist article this week that has to do with waste and the environmental implications of climbing our favorite mountains maybe a bit too much. The article basically just talked about the issues that surround mountaineering, and a meeting in Colorado that was held between experts on the issues, and asked…
Reading Response
Colonialism
by mel •
I know that most posts I make begin with me pointing out that this week’s reading was something we have been vaguely discussing all semester, but we have discussed many things this semester, and colonialism/imperialism has been a large topic. Especially when dealing with the ‘golden age’ of mountaineering, when a first summit for all…
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True Summit
by mel •
In a way this book does something we have done in discussion all semester. Seeing that this book is written in 2000, it seems almost that the 1990’s and early 2000’s have brought an age of questioning the pasts mountaineering excursions, much like the fact that we are all taking a ‘history of mountaineering course,’…
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Interesting tidbit
by mel •
So I always get emails from the website ‘theclymb.com’ which is pretty much a discounted outdoor gear website, that rotates brands depending on what companies have excess of and whatnot, and this week their email included a brand called ‘Sherpa’ which I had never heard of, so I looked up the website (link below) and…
Reading Response
Life and Death
by mel •
This book offered so much insight into the life of Sherpas, which was actually very interesting to me, especially since all semester I feel as though we have been discussing Sherpas in a very vague sense, not wanting to state facts that are false or overgeneralize without the full amount of information we can know…
Reading Response
Into Thin Air
by mel •
I found this reading particularly interesting, I don’t know if it was Krakauer’s honest and a little bit condescending tone, or the story itself, but both made this Everest disaster an intriguing read, but also sort of frustrating in a couple ways. To begin with Krakauer gives the contents of the brochure to the reader,…