The savage mountain that kill one in four, is correctly acclaimed to be the most dangerous mountain. It is vastly different in the other Himalayan mountains. The climbing of this great beast is more technical, harder to camp on, difficult to get to, and most importantly deadly. K2: The Savage Mountain is more than just…
Reading Response, Week 8
Discovering the Cultural Identity of Tibet From European Standpoint
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The incredible, historic, and adventurous tale of Seven Years in Tibet showed one of the last intact and pure indigenous cultures left in the world. Contrary to previous expeditions, mapping quests, and escaping, this POW truly saw untainted Tibet for the first time from a European perspective. This POW was able to observe and record while still…
Reading Response, Week 7
Week 7, Annapurna and Fallen Giants
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This past week, we read argumentatively the most read and recognized mountaineering book, Annapurna. Pairing this timeless classic with an in-depth historical account of the so-called “Golden Age” of mountaineering, was a true delight. This change in pace allowed for the gloom and doom of the previous weeks to finally come into the light. Annapurna…
Reading Response
The White Spider, Week 6
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The combination of skill, luck, and determination can propel a person to accomplish incredible feats. It can be the first ascent of the north face of the Mont Blanc or building the first airplane and test flying it. In either situation, the luck of having good weather never hurts. Yet, these would not have been…
Reading Response, Uncategorized, Week 5
Week 5, Mountians and Cultural Identity
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For weeks we have been stewing over British Imperialism and national pride, when it came to ascension of Mount Everest. The British felt that it would be a national accomplishment to make it to the top of this great mountain. However, mountains being strongly tied with cultural identity was not solely found within the British…
Reading Response, Week 4
Week Four, Fallen Giants
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The exploration and mapping of the Greater Ranges on earth was a large reason for people to start climbing in the greater ranges with higher altitudes. Fallen Giants, by Maurice Isserman and Stewart Weaver, is a great historical text showing how remote, and absolutely huge the great ranges are. Over 400 miles in width at…
Reading Response, Week 3
Week 3
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The evolution of mountains is more than just the movement of tectonic plates crashing into each other, pushing up on each other to create a jagged peaks, and corrupting the earth surface. Furthermore, humans used to see mountains as obstacles and mystical centers of fairytales. However, in the last couple of centuries,mountains have become more…
Reading Response, Week 2
Week 1, Mountains and Faith
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Within both the readings, Mount Analogue and Mount Verita, it is quite obvious that mountains, and moreover, climbers have a certain spiritual or mystical view towards the mountains they climb. Very early on in René Daumal novel, Mount Analogue, there was a reference to several mountains worldwide that had some holy or spiritual connotation, such…
Introduction
Intoduction
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Hello! My name is Meed and I am junior in the Political Science program. I am originally from a Westcliffe, Colorado, which is a small town in the middle of the mountains of Colorado. I spent most my life staring up at thirteen and fourteen thousand foot peaks, most of which, I climbed throughout my…