Pub Date : 2020-07-28DOI: 10.12987/9780300252828-003
{"title":"1. The Vicissitudes of Humboldt’s Mountain Moments","authors":"","doi":"10.12987/9780300252828-003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12987/9780300252828-003","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":414039,"journal":{"name":"Peak Pursuits","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-07-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130854055","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2020-07-28DOI: 10.12987/yale/9780300231946.003.0012
C. Schaumann
This chapter emphasizes how intersections of scientific, aesthetic, economic, and material interests in early mountain climbing across nations and continents furthers the understanding of the development of sensual, place-based attachments. It proposes a new environmental culture that would renegotiate concepts of autonomy and freedom. It also reflects on the experiences of early mountaineers that become amplified in the Anthropocene, in which people become victims rather than masters of nature in the face of climate change's destructive floods, devastating fires, and droughts. The chapter investigates place attachment as a means of fostering environmental awareness that relates to the theories of Merleau–Ponty, who posed that the sense of orientation develops in relationship to the surroundings. It also explains how perception always involves movement in the world, as it is embedded in the bodily motor capacities of the senses.
{"title":"Epilogue","authors":"C. Schaumann","doi":"10.12987/yale/9780300231946.003.0012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12987/yale/9780300231946.003.0012","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter emphasizes how intersections of scientific, aesthetic, economic, and material interests in early mountain climbing across nations and continents furthers the understanding of the development of sensual, place-based attachments. It proposes a new environmental culture that would renegotiate concepts of autonomy and freedom. It also reflects on the experiences of early mountaineers that become amplified in the Anthropocene, in which people become victims rather than masters of nature in the face of climate change's destructive floods, devastating fires, and droughts. The chapter investigates place attachment as a means of fostering environmental awareness that relates to the theories of Merleau–Ponty, who posed that the sense of orientation develops in relationship to the surroundings. It also explains how perception always involves movement in the world, as it is embedded in the bodily motor capacities of the senses.","PeriodicalId":414039,"journal":{"name":"Peak Pursuits","volume":"123 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-07-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132593173","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2020-07-28DOI: 10.12987/9780300252828-008
{"title":"6. The Selling of the Alps and the Beginning of the “Golden Age”: Albert Smith and Alfred Wills","authors":"","doi":"10.12987/9780300252828-008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12987/9780300252828-008","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":414039,"journal":{"name":"Peak Pursuits","volume":"69 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-07-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134062095","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2020-07-28DOI: 10.12987/9780300252828-007
{"title":"5. Icecapades: James David Forbes and Louis Agassiz","authors":"","doi":"10.12987/9780300252828-007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12987/9780300252828-007","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":414039,"journal":{"name":"Peak Pursuits","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-07-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130269713","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"THE MAKING OF MODERN CLIMBING:","authors":"","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv138wr6d.12","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv138wr6d.12","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":414039,"journal":{"name":"Peak Pursuits","volume":"65 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-07-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121532108","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This chapter argues that Alexander von Humboldt not only merged opposing approaches but also experienced the dissolution of categories when faced with extreme conditions high in the mountains. It examines how Humboldt slowly departed from paradigms, such as the European sublime and scientific enlightenment, and admitted to becoming intoxicated with unknown heights. It also conveys information about Humboldt's journey from different viewpoints and analytical perspectives that sometimes remain in unresolved conflict. The chapter looks into Humboldt's letters, diary, published travel reports, and pictorial representations in order to piece together the evolution of a mountaineering discourse that adopts original narrative strategies and rhetorical devices while underscoring the endeavor's overall ambivalence. It also describes how Humboldt was proud of his altitude achievements but continually questioned the mountaineering quest.
{"title":"THE VICISSITUDES OF HUMBOLDT’S MOUNTAIN MOMENTS","authors":"C. Schaumann","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv138wr6d.5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv138wr6d.5","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter argues that Alexander von Humboldt not only merged opposing approaches but also experienced the dissolution of categories when faced with extreme conditions high in the mountains. It examines how Humboldt slowly departed from paradigms, such as the European sublime and scientific enlightenment, and admitted to becoming intoxicated with unknown heights. It also conveys information about Humboldt's journey from different viewpoints and analytical perspectives that sometimes remain in unresolved conflict. The chapter looks into Humboldt's letters, diary, published travel reports, and pictorial representations in order to piece together the evolution of a mountaineering discourse that adopts original narrative strategies and rhetorical devices while underscoring the endeavor's overall ambivalence. It also describes how Humboldt was proud of his altitude achievements but continually questioned the mountaineering quest.","PeriodicalId":414039,"journal":{"name":"Peak Pursuits","volume":"47 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-07-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131865365","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2020-07-28DOI: 10.1515/9783034608664.865
C. Schaumann
This chapter studies the evolution of Alpine climbing in the mid-1800s and examines the ways in which Humboldtian writing and science, the Romantic sublime, and bodily sensations and disruptions shaped perceptions and representations of European forays to Alpine summits. It presents a brief overview of the history of Alpine development from antiquity to the present, with special consideration of British tourism in the Alps. The chapter recounts how mountaineering emerged as a sport of radical individualism that solidified and simultaneously challenged new models of masculinity and broadly affected patterns of tourism, leisure, and consumption by the end of the nineteenth century. It also mentions German climbers on the remote Similaun glacier who came across Ötzi the Iceman, a corpse that was remarkably well preserved in the ice in 1991. It points out how scientists concluded that Ötzi's body was dated to circa 3500 BC, which gives evidence that even in prehistoric times Neolithic humans regularly frequented the mountains.
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