Mac Gwinner Dr. Greene HSTR 4/001 5 May 2016 The Climb of Gender Equality In the year 1838 in the heat of August, Henriette d’Angeville became one of the first women to attempt and summit Mont Blanc, just outside of Geneva (Brown, 14). The accomplishment of such a task and summiting Mont Blanc was one…
Film Review
180º South Film Review
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180º South, a documentary film about one mans journey, Jeff Johnson, to Patagonia in order to climb the mountain Corcovado and Cerro which was only previously summited by his long time hero Doug Tompkins in the 1960’s who stated when seeking to climb this mountain “We didn’t want to be apart of the military complex”. They believed thoroughly…
Book Review
The Climb By Anatoli Boukreev and Weston DeWalt Book Review
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The Climb by Anatoli Boukreev and coauthored by Weston DeWalt seeks to present the Mount Everest disaster of 1996 through a different lens. With the help of the authorship Anatoli Boukreev and other members of Fischer’s Mountain Madness, the title of his company, seek to show their perspective of what occurred on the fateful day…
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Final Project Sources
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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…
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Personal Article of Interest Week 15 George Montopoli
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The articles that I chose to present to the class this week are about George Montopoli a personal family friend and prominent mountain climber and ranger in the Grand Tetons National Park. The two articles that I attached are about an ongoing project he and his daughter have embarked upon in which they attempt to…
Reading Response, Uncategorized
Week 14 Orientalism
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The topic of Post colonialism is a very hefty topic which no surprise came with a slightly hefty reading. In the sense that it is a stretching topic that has roots, most obviously, in earlier themes such as, no surprise, colonialism. The readings from these week highlighted this very well and showed a range of…
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Week 13 True Summit
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I thought this weeks reading was highly interesting because it provided us with a look back on an event that had already occurred and that we had moved past. For the majority of the semester, it would seem, that we moved forward chronologically visiting new adventures and new climbs and new problems facing climbing where…
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Life and Death Week 12
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The text Life and Death on Mt. Everest: Sherpas and Himalayan Mountaineering by Sherry Ortner dove into a topic which I had been looking forward to all semester. This was the topic of Sherpas and their relationships with mountaineers and the sport of mountaineering. Throughout the entirety of her text she does not make sweeping…
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Reading Response Into Thin Air
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Project Proposal
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Being that I am very interested in the topic of gender and because my other passions, falconry and soccer, have little to do with mountaineering for my final project proposal I want to analyze further the role that gender plays in the sport of mountaineering. More specifically I want to look at how gender roles…