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The Summits of Modern Man: Mountaineering after the Enlightenment

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 | #1805149 in Books |  Harvard University Press |  2013-05-14 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.60 x1.19 x6.45l,1.67 | File type: PDF | 392 pages

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||4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.| reaching the heights of climbing books|By C. A. Brown|This is the most interesting book on mountains and mountaineering. It tells the story of the classic climbs in fascinating detail. Then Hansen goes beyond the technical and individual adventures and discusses the historical, scientific and cultural contexts of the assents. This book achieves intellectual heights without pu| |[A] learned and complex analysis of 'multiple modernities' as seen through the prism of mountaineering… One of the most revealing accounts of the Everest expedition that I have read. (Adam Thorpe Times Literary Supplement 2013-07-26)

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The history of mountaineering has long served as a metaphor for civilization triumphant. Once upon a time, the Alps were an inaccessible habitat of specters and dragons, until heroic men—pioneers of enlightenment—scaled their summits, classified their strata and flora, and banished the phantoms forever. A fascinating interdisciplinary study of the first ascents of the major Alpine peaks and Mount Everest, The Summits of Modern Man surveys the far-ra...

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