Finding just one aspect from Robert Macfarlane’s writings is difficult, so being from Minnesota and coming to Montana, I focused much during the book on the draw to the mountains and what Macfarlane has to say about it. In relation to last week’s discussion on the draw to mountaineering despite its obvious danger and lack…

Mountains of the Mind is to say well titled, it chronicles the history of Eurocentric views towards mountains and perhaps more appropriate, it was to me at least, a very difficult book to work through. I found Macfarlane’s metaphors very dramatic and out of place in a nonfiction work; and it seemed to me he…

Sublime: awe-inspiringly grand, excellent, or impressive. The very definition of sublime not only defines what it means to scale a vast range of mountains but it also subverts the other emotions that come along with climbing a mountain such as fear and panic; emotions that come more naturally to a human being when faced with…