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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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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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“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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A Provable Secure Private Data Delegation Scheme for Mountaineering Events in Emergency System
IEEE Access, 2017 Recently, the sport of mountaineering is a popular leisure activity and many people may injure while mountaineering. In the year of 2014, Chen et al.
Chien-Ming Chen +4 more
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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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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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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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Risk taking in Extreme Sports: A phenomenological perspective [PDF]
, 2010 Participation in extreme sports is enjoying incredible growth while more traditional recreational activities such as golf are struggling to maintain numbers.
Brymer, Eric
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Frontiers in Sports and Active Living, 2022 Recreational and professional climbing is gaining popularity. Thus, valid and reliable infield strength monitoring and testing devices are required. This study aims at assessing the validity as well as within- and between-day reliability of two climbing ...
Berit K. Labott +6 more
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