The film Meru tells the story of how Conrad Anker, Jimmy Chin, and Renan Ozturk make the first ascent of the Shark’s Fin on Mount Meru. Throughout the film Jon Krakauer narrates the climb to be understood for any audience. He also explains the history of the mountain and where the desire of climbing Meru…
Reading Response, Week 7
Annapurna/Fallen Giants (2/2) : Week 7
by Bryant Lymburn •
Are Toes Necessary? Bryant Lymburn This weeks reading response focused on the adventure of Herzog and the French expedition to summit Annapurna and the other climbs of Himalayan and Karakorum peaks to follow. As we know these were not the first time these peaks were tempted to be summit-ed. From previous readings we have discussed…
Reading Response, Week 7
Battle between Masculinity and Feminism on Annapurna
by th •
Julie Rak’s paper on the politics of gender in mountaineering, focused on the way that previous mountaineering literature not only excluded female climbers, but also emphasized the importance of masculinity in the mountains. Feminist accounts concerning mountaineering have been almost non existent, and Rak questions why this particular topic is a tough subject to speak…
Reading Response, Week 7
Annapurna Week 7
by nap •
On the one hand, we have the classic mountaineering novel Annapurna which has a lot of the classic mountaineering rhetoric that we have been discussing for much of this semester. The role of masculinity and Herzog’s role as the leader of the expedition i e his insistence that he be the first man up the…
Reading Response, Uncategorized, Week 7
Week 7 Response
by mmg •
I found both of these readings from Fallen Giants and Annapurna very interesting and they captivated my attention start to finish. The first point that I found interesting came from the reading that we had to complete from Fallen Giants. This was the idea of the militarization of mountains and how the military and mountains…
Reading Response, Week 7
Week 7
by mkg •
Social Climbing on Annapurna seems anything but what the title conveys. Throughout discussion and class, we’ve touched on gender and climbing, but I guess I hadn’t really thought too in depth regarding the politics and stigmas that women faced not only from society but also from the climbing community, native peoples, and their respective parties…
Reading Response, Week 7
The Golden Age of Mountaineering
by Josh •
Reading Response, Week 7
Week 7, Annapurna and Fallen Giants
by wmg •
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, Week 7
Week 7
by lcm •
Maurice Herzog’s Annapurna would have fit well under last week’s discussion theme of “The Drama of Mountaineering” with his highly detailed account of expedition that he led into the Himalayas. His search for Annapurna took the entire first half of the book before even locating the peak. Once his expedition team located Annapurna they struggled…
Reading Response, Week 7
Week 7
by mel •
“In this strange world where everything tends toward the vertical, one’s notion of balance is quite peculiar: all these vistas of chaos render one’s first impressions unreliable”(Herzog,pg. 98). I’m not sure exactly why but I find this quote of the book especially interesting when dealing with mountaineering and the “strange world where everything tends toward…