Rene Daumal and Daphne Du Maurier bring forth an interesting aspect of mountains. That is the kind of religious and spiritual part of mountains, and that they are far more than just these far reaching peaks that stretch above the earth. Rather, both of these authors bring to the minds of readers the ethereal nature…
Reading Response, Week 2
Week 1, Mountains and Faith
by wmg •
Within both the readings, Mount Analogue and Mount Verita, it is quite obvious that mountains, and moreover, climbers have a certain spiritual or mystical view towards the mountains they climb. Very early on in René Daumal novel, Mount Analogue, there was a reference to several mountains worldwide that had some holy or spiritual connotation, such…
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Reading Response, Week 2
Metaphorical Mountains
by mmd •
To say that Daumal holds mountains as an ideal would be making a gross understatement. Mount Analogue is filled to the brim with helcionic comparisons between ideal states of being and mountaineering. Daumal makes an excellent point that in myth and folklore mountains are heavily featured as a means in which divinity meets humanity upon;…
Reading Response, Week 2
Mount Analogue
by Matt •
On page 70 – 71, Rene Daumal explains who and what glaciers are, “…you could learn a lot from the observation of glaciers. Perhaps nature has made them in a first attempt to create living beings by exclusively physical processes.” Here, I feel Daumal is comparing himself and mountaineers to a glacier and answering the…
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by nap •
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by Bryant Lymburn •
Hello everyone, I’ll start off by saying that my name is Bryant, and I’m probably the oddball out of this entire class. I am currently in my fourth year studying to be a mechanical engineer and am currently on schedule to graduate in May. Growing up in Minnesota mountains are something that eludes almost all…
Reading Response, Week 2
Mount Analogue
by Colton •
I had started reading Mount Analogue with the assumption that this was a book of non-fiction. I read the first couple chapters with apprehension. The whole premise of the journey seemed suspicious. I did not quite understand the science behind the theory of Mount Analogue either, but I just went with it. I suspected the…
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by Josh •
Hello, my name is Josh Nelson, I’m in my final semester at MSU and will be graduating with a history degree. I’m from Augusta, Montana, a small town located on the Rocky Mountain Front, and I’ve always loved being in the mountains hiking and backpacking. That’s primarily why I chose to take this course, because…
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by mmg •
Hello my name is Mac Gwinner. I was born and raised right here in bozeman Montana and only moved away to live in England for a few short years. I am a history major with a museum studies minor. This semester will mark my second semester of college. I became interested in mountaineering due to my background…