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Everest's thinning glaciers: implications for tourism and mountaineering [PDF]
, 2018 Glacier mass loss in the Everest region of Nepal is accelerating in response to a warming climate, which is a trend observed across the central and eastern Himalaya.
C. Scott Watson, Owen King
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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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Occurrence of fatalities in mountaineering: The case of Mt. Kenya
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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Tourism and Hospitality, 2023 Mountain guides play an important role in the provision of nature-based tourism activities, such as mountaineering, in alpine environments around the world.
Katherine Hanly +2 more
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‘You don't understand us!’ An inside perspective on adventure climbing [PDF]
, 2013 This paper presents a specific (insider) perspective of a small group of experienced male Scottish adventure climbers and explores through in-depth semi-structured interviews their attitudes, strategies and justifications associated with potentially high-
Holland-Smith, David, Olivier, Steve
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The Matterhorn, an emblematic mountain in Switzerland, the time scales of a geomorphosite
International Journal of Geoheritage and Parks, 2023 The Matterhorn, a famous mountain in the Swiss Alps is a well characterized geomorphosite, presenting both an important scientific interest and aesthetic, cultural and economic values in Switzerland.
Francis Huguet
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“Men who can last”: Mountaineering Endurance, the Lake District Fell Records and the Campaign for Everest, 1919-1924 [PDF]
, 2013 This paper examines the post-First World War reconstruction of masculinity around notions of endurance in the British outdoor movement. From the 1860s onwards, long-distance walking trials in the Lake District became part of the regional mountaineering ...
Westaway, Jonathan
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‘All the places we were not supposed to go’:a case study of formative class and gender habitus in adventure climbing [PDF]
, 2015 This paper explores the origins of meaning in adventurous activities. Specifically, the paper reports on a study of 10 adventure climbers in the Scottish mountaineering community. The study explores how formative experiences have influenced engagement in
Holland-Smith, David
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That Undisclosed World: Eric Shipton’s Mountains of Tartary (1950). [PDF]
, 2014 Mountains of Tartary (1950) recounts Eric Shipton’s mountaineering and travels in Xinjiang during his two postings as British Consul-General in Kashgar in the 1940s.
Westaway, Jonathan
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Genre, Sexualité et Société, 2015 Mountaineering, traditionally a men’s sport, takes a heroic and warlike connotation during periods of conquest of new mountain ranges. This was the case during the 1950s and 1960s, the so-called golden age of Himalayan climbing, when nations were ...
Delphine Moraldo
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