The effect of mountaineering on the grit of college students: an empirical study [PDF]
PeerJObjective Although ample evidence in the literature suggests a correlation between general sports participation and resilience, information on the potential impact of specific sports activities on resilience is lacking.
Lun Li +5 more
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Occurrence of fatalities in mountaineering: The case of Mt. Kenya [PDF]
Cogent Social Sciences, 2023 A fatality is the most detrimental incident that can occur in mountaineering. It is important to study previous cases and learn from circumstances surrounding fatal incidences in programmes sharing some common elements.
Nkatha Muthomi +2 more
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A century of mountaineering: race, class and the politics of climbing Table Mountain, 1890 – 1990
Acta Academica, 2018 Mountaineering in Cape Town was first practised as a sport by the colonial elite during the late 19th Century. This historical review of two mountain clubs analyses the linkages between race, class and mountaineering in Cape Town, South Africa ...
Farieda Khan
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Comparison of personality differences of Polish mountaineers [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2023 A noticeably increased interest in mountain climbing, both as the form of extreme sport and a form of tourism, has been observed in Poland recently. The assumption of this study is that practicing different varieties of mountaineering influences the ...
Paweł Piepiora +4 more
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Nutrition, hydration and supplementation considerations for mountaineers in high-altitude conditions: a narrative review [PDF]
Frontiers in Sports and Active LivingStaying and climbing in high mountains (>2,500 m) involves changes in diet due to poor access to fresh food, lack of appetite, food poisoning, environmental conditions and physiological changes.
Ewa Karpęcka-Gałka, Barbara Frączek
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HISTORICAL SPECIAL INTEREST TOURISM: THE EVOLUTION OF MOUNTAINEERING IN SOUTH AFRICA [PDF]
Revista Română de Geografie PoliticăScholarship on special interest tourism has burgeoned since the 1980s. Although this expanding research interest is relatively new, the phenomenon of special interest tourism is not of recent origin as many of its forms, such as mountaineering ...
Christian M. ROGERSON, Jayne M. ROGERSON
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Three paths to the summit: understanding mountaineering through game-playing, deep ecology and art [PDF]
The climb of Gasherbrum IV’s (7,925 m) ‘Shining Wall’ in 1985 by Voytek Kurtyka and Robert Schauer is considered one of the greatest mountaineering achievements in the twentieth century, even though the two climbers did not reach the summit.
Karlsen, Gunnar
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Deathly Accidents While High-Altitude Mountaineering in the Swiss Alps-An Observational Analysis from 2009 to 2021. [PDF]
Int J Environ Res Public Health, 2022 Gasser B.
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Transferability of Exercise Intensity Based on Muscle Oxygenation from Normoxia to Hypoxia in Ski-Mountaineering Athletes-Exploratory Study. [PDF]
Sports (Basel)Rębiś K +3 more
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Zbornik Lovranšćine, 2021 Activities of the “Orljak” Mountaineering Club from Opatija (hereinafter: the Club) are underrepresented in the history of Croatian mountaineering.
Igor Eterović, Ivana Eterović
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