We have discussed John Krakauer before, yet, this is the first book we have read by him and the first few chapters give us some insight on what kind of person Krakauer is. It shows that he was natural born climber, working for NOALS, along with climbing multiple peaks throughout North America. His insight shows…

Fallen Giants and Into Thin Air have both displayed a common theme – the “golden age” of Himalaya mountaineering is dead. The counterculture movements of the 1960s influenced not just the western views on the Himalaya region but have extended up to that mountaineering itself. A new generation of climbers is shaking things up and…

            Beyond the Edge is a 2013 documentary film that recounts the first successful summiting expedition of Everest in 1953. What makes this film stand out is that there is no single voiceover that drives the film but it is narrated in sound clips from interviews given by Sir Edmund Hillary, the expedition leader Colonel…

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…

For my final paper, I’d like to focus my research on the people that surround mountains and their perspectives on such mountains. How do they view a mountain? Do they pray to the mountains and treat them with respect? Do they feel that mountains are females or males and why? Do they feel that a…

For my final paper, I want to write about the environmental and economic impacts of tourism caused by mountaineering. I would like to focus specifically on Mount Everest to give some focus to the paper and because there has been so much tourism to Everest in the recent years. Proposed sources: “Growth of Tourism in…

          Seven Years in Tibet at the very least can be said is off the beaten path of this course. Talking about Tibet in anyway invokes the images of mountains and of the Dalai Lama – both prime subjects of this book. To Harrier mountains are seen as a luxury as…