The Summits of Modern Man : : Mountaineering after the Enlightenment / / Peter H. Hansen.
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 fore...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2013] ©2013 |
| Year of Publication: | 2013 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- CHAPTER ONE Beginnings
- CHAPTER TWO Discovery of the Glacières
- CHAPTER THREE Ascent and Enfranchisement
- CHAPTER FOUR Who Was First?
- CHAPTER FIVE Temple of Nature
- CHAPTER SIX Social Climbers
- CHAPTER SEVEN Age of Conquest
- CHAPTER EIGHT History Detectives
- CHAPTER NINE Almost Together
- CHAPTER TEN Bodies of Ice
- Abbreviations
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- Index