A History of British Mountaineering
Author: Robert Lock Graham Irving
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Published: 1955
Total Pages: 296
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Robert Lock Graham Irving
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Published: 1955
Total Pages: 296
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Colin Wells
Publisher:
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 120
ISBN-13: 9780903908627
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Colin Wells provides a full, very readable record of the way the sport has developed from the first recorded climb to the present day. It additionally captures the extraordinary range of personalities that mountaineering has spawned.
Author: Simon Thompson
Publisher: Cicerone Press Limited
Published: 2012-03-06
Total Pages: 400
ISBN-13: 1849656991
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →To the impartial observer Britain does not appear to have any mountains. Yet the British invented the sport of mountain climbing and for two periods in history British climbers led the world in the pursuit of this beautiful and dangerous obsession. Unjustifiable Risk is the story of the social, economic and cultural conditions that gave rise to the sport, and the achievements and motives of the scientists and poets, parsons and anarchists, villains and judges, ascetics and drunks that have shaped its development over the past two hundred years. The history of climbing inevitably reflects the wider changes that have occurred in British society, including class, gender, nationalism and war, but the sport has also contributed to changing social attitudes to nature and beauty, heroism and death. Over the years, increasing wealth, leisure and mobility have gradually transformed climbing from an activity undertaken by an eccentric and privileged minority into a sub-division of the leisure and tourist industry, while competition, improved technology and information, and increasing specialisation have helped to create climbs of unimaginable difficulty at the leading edge of the sport. But while much has changed, even more has remained the same. Today's climbers would be instantly recognisable to their Victorian predecessors, with their desire to escape from the crowded complexity of urban society and willingness to take "unjustifiable" risk in pursuit of beauty, adventure and self-fulfilment. Unjustifiable Risk was shortlisted for the Boardman Tasker prize in 2011.
Author: Roger Frison-Roche
Publisher: Flammarion-Pere Castor
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 344
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Beginning with the first conquest of the Alps in the eighteenth century, the drive to scale the world's tallest peaks has inspired generations of amateur and professional climbers and explorers. In breathtaking illustrations and an exciting, accessible text, Roger Frison-Roche and Sylvain Jouty bring the history of mountain climbing vividly to life. Supplemented by biographies of fifty of the world's most celebrated mountain climbers and a detailed chronology, this thrilling chronicle of the triumphs and defeats that have marked the history of the sport will appeal to mountain-climbing enthusiasts and anyone who loves the great outdoors.
Author: Alan McNee
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2017-04-18
Total Pages: 257
ISBN-13: 3319334409
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book is about the rise of a new ethos in British mountaineering during the late nineteenth century. It traces how British attitudes to mountains were transformed by developments both within the new sport of mountaineering and in the wider fin-de-siècle culture. The emergence of the new genre of mountaineering literature, which helped to create a self-conscious community of climbers with broadly shared values, coincided with a range of cultural and scientific trends that also influenced the direction of mountaineering. The author discusses the growing preoccupation with the physical basis of aesthetic sensations, and with physicality and materiality in general; the new interest in the physiology of effort and fatigue; and the characteristically Victorian drive to enumerate, codify, and classify. Examining a wide range of texts, from memoirs and climbing club journals to hotel visitors’ books, he argues that the figure known as the ‘New Mountaineer’ was seen to embody a distinctly modern approach to mountain climbing and mountain aesthetics.
Author: C. E. Benson
Publisher:
Published: 2017-08-14
Total Pages: 252
ISBN-13: 9780649206711
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Simon Bainbridge
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2020-04-16
Total Pages: 319
ISBN-13: 0198857896
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book examines the relationship between Romantic-period writing and the activity that Samuel Taylor Coleridge christened 'mountaineering' in 1802. It argues that mountaineering developed as a pursuit in Britain during the Romantic era, earlier than is generally recognised, and shows how writers including William and Dorothy Wordsworth, Ann Radcliffe, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Keats, and Walter Scott were central to the activity's evolution. It explores how the desire for physical ascent shaped Romantic-period literary culture and investigates how the figure of the mountaineer became crucial to creative identities and literary outputs. Illustrated with 25 images from the period, the book shows how mountaineering in Britain had its origins in scientific research, antiquarian travel, and the search for the picturesque and the sublime. It considers how writers engaged with mountaineering's power dynamics and investigates issues including the politics of the summit view (what Wordsworth terms 'visual sovereignty'), the relationships between different types of 'mountaineers', and the role of women in the developing cultures of ascent. Placing the work of canonical writers alongside a wide range of other types of mountaineering literature, this book reassesses key Romantic-period terms and ideas, such as vision, insight, elevation, revelation, transcendence, and the sublime. It opens up new ways of understanding the relationship between Romantic-period writers and the world that they experienced through their feet and hands, as well as their eyes, as they moved through the challenging landscapes of the British mountains.
Author: Claude Ernest 1863 Benson
Publisher:
Published: 2016-08-25
Total Pages: 250
ISBN-13: 9781361407295
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Maurice Isserman
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2010-01-01
Total Pages: 592
ISBN-13: 0300164203
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In the first comprehensive history of Himalayan mountaineering in 50 years, the authors offer detailed, original accounts of the most significant climbs since the 1890s, and they compellingly evoke the social and cultural worlds that gave rise to those expeditions.