Reading Fallen Giants resulted in many late nights reading long dense material. The book was sporadically interesting. The book was a sea of uninteresting passages, but peppered with useful knowledge. I would not categorize this book as a “page-turner”, at least not until chapter three; the story of “Mallory of Everest”. Mallory, as a person,…

With the reading of Fallen Giants the history part of Mountaineering comes into sharp focus. No doubt an angle change from looking at metaphorical mountains and no longer are we studying the mountains of English and Petrarchan poems and works but actual concrete mountains in all of their glory. The angle of time is now…

The Dancing Lamas of Everest: Cinema, Orientalism, and Anglo-Tibetan Relations in the 1920s gave a typical account of how Europeans, the West in general, and the British use Orientalism, consciously and unconsciously, to the detriment of Asian cultures. One of the parts I found most interesting about this story is the backdrop on which it…