Week 9

Reading Response, Uncategorized, Week 9

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…

Reading Response, Uncategorized, Week 9

Reading Response Into Thin Air

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This weeks texts from Into Thin Air and Fallen Giants were very interesting readings that intrigued me on a few differing levels.  Never mind that John Krakauer lives in Bozeman which is pretty neat in my opinion he is the modern climber as far as I can tell from what others have said.  He is also…

Reading Response, Week 9

K2: The Savage Mountain & Shit Happens

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Instead of “Drama of the Summit” could the week be renamed “Depressing Stories of Mountaineering”? The account of the 1953 attempt of K2 led by Dr. Charles S. Houston is not of conquest, rather it is an account of defeat. Even the authors justify the value of their trip as “a venture made for sport…

Reading Response, Week 9

Shit Happened on Everest & K2: For Different Reasons

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I really enjoyed both these readings this week. Until K2: The Savage Mountain, I had never heard of the incredible, and tragic, story of the1953 American expedition. This story was one tale of bad luck after another, yet at the same time, a story of incredible heroism and friendship. Charles Houston and Robert Bates did…

Uncategorized, Week 9

K2 the savage mountain

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K2 The Savage Mountain offered a fresh and honest literally account of the first American expedition to K2. A major contrast to a majority of the texts that we have read so far in this class, which highlighted individual glory and the pursuit of masculine adventure high in mountains as well as bringing pride and…

Week 9

Week 9 Response

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As we have touched on in class, mountaineering requires a vast amount of experience in climbing, environmental assimilation, and a sense of adventure; but as a human being I’ve always asked myself in class would it be at all possible for a person such as myself, who is very inexperienced in mountaineering and clueless in…

Book Review, Uncategorized, Week 9

Week 9 Reading Response

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I found the article by Palmer and the text by Houston and Bates very interesting and it answered some questions and spoke to a few of the key topics that I found interesting in this course thus far. In the expedition of K2 it is the first that was headed by an American group which…

Reading Response, Week 9

Week Nine: K2 the Savage Mountain

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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…

Final Papers, Week 9

Proposal

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For the Final (and only paper for that manner) I propose to evaluate the history of developing tourism and commercialization around mountaineering, including but not limited to, the greater ranges. My thesis will be centered around why there has been a tourist interest, and how that has developed in the last few decades; and possibly…

Final Papers, Week 9

Final Paper Topic Proposal

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For my final paper topic, I want to explore the aspect of the environmental impacts on the mountain landscape, the first article we read for the class dealt with waste on Mount Everest and I have found other research that deals with the environmental impacts that mountaineering has on our landscapes.   Here are a…