Touching the Void is most certainly one of the most epic mountaineering books that I have read and truly captures the unbreakable determination and fight that resides in the human spirit. The book tells the real life story of Joe Simpson and Simon Yates and their climb and disastrous descent from the west face of Siula…

Here’s the link to my (very quick) survey. Please be honest and feel free to spread the word! Thanks everybody! https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/MPMCPZ If you have any questions, comments, or suggestions feel free to email me at vertigomsu@ gmail.com. Thanks again!

My paper is focusing on terrorism and war in the Himalayas and their effects on mountaineering and other tourism in these areas.  My personal favorite source is the book that Greg Child wrote about the 1999 Kidnapping of Americans in Kyrgyzstan. It allows for a turning point and the main focus of the paper and…

For my final paper, I will be looking at how commercialization of Everest and the Himalayas has positively and negatively impacted the native Sherpa people. The question that my paper will be trying to answer is whether commercialization has led to the exploitation of the Sherpas on Everest climbing expeditions and whether the dangerous work justifies the…

http://www.forbes.com/2003/06/11/cz_jc_0611feat.html   This article gives light to several issues that we have talked about in this class thus far from Edmund Hillary’s perspective in 1999. The interview with Hillary gives his opinions on several modern mountaineering issued facing Everest, and Nepal. Continuing it talks about Norgay and Hillary friendship after the 1953 summit of Everest,…

For my final paper, I’d like to study and observe Native American tribes and their relationships with the mountains that were once their homes such as the Sioux with The Black Hills of South Dakota and the Blackfeet Nation of Montana (mainly because there is a lot of material). I wanted to compare and contrast…

http://adventureblog.nationalgeographic.com/2016/04/18/can-two-climbers-on-snapchat-improve-everests-struggling-reputation/ I really enjoyed the article because it ties the disaster of 1996 into the technology era that Everest has fallen victim to. The author does a fairly decent and entertaining job of helping a reader understand why Everest has taken on such a negative context, he does it in a way that any audience…

I am still trying to figure out a thesis for the paper, but I know that i want to research how various cultures view the mountains, i e religious views and philosophy. I really enjoyed the first chapter of Mount Analogue, when it was describing how different cultures use mountains in their legends, such as…