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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Mountaineering"”.
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The Modernisation of Elite British Mountaineering: Entrepreneurship, Commercialisation and the Career Climber, 1953-2000
… examines how economic pressures reshaped British mountaineering in the decades following the first ascent of Everest. Between 1953 and 2000 the sport was transformed, beginning with the dismantling of amateur pressures by which it had previously been defined. This allowed entrepreneurial ideas to …
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Formed by fire : a mountaineering basecamp at the pine plantation in the dystopia of Cecilia Forest
I am a mountaineer. I hike, I climb, I camp (mostly without a tent, unless it snows of course). It has been a serious hobby since I was a Boy Scout at the age of fourteen. At the beginning of the year, I saw an opportunity to add a personal touch through experience and interest in order to better …
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Impossible Heights: From Mining to Sport in the Mountain West, 1849 to 1936
… to their Alps to climb during the Golden Age of Mountaineering. These events, seemingly separate, came from the same basic impetus. The Scientific Revolution eased the old fear of mountains from the religious tradition and gave humans the license and curiosity to explore. Mountains also offered …
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Bergführer im Spannungsfeld zwischen Idealismus und Leistungsfähigkeit – Eine Analyse der Bedeutung von Präventionsbildung für die Leistung von Bergführern
… health measures. This research explores the mountaineering experience through content analysis of mountaineering literature and key information to identify the critical factors of the work. As a framework for this research, the Job Demands-Resource Model (JD-R) and the Salutogenic Model were …
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Class, gender and habitus : a ‘Bourdieuian’ perspective of social reproduction and change in the contemporary sports field with a focus on adventure climbing
… reproduction and change in the contemporary mountaineering and climbing field. A central theme in this thesis is the relationship between social structure and individual agency. The adoption of the Bourdieuian approach represents a conceptual break with previous understandings of action, …
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The sublime, imperialism and the African landscape
… writing, together with an analysis of colonial mountaineering discourse, suggest that non-metropolitan discourses of the sublime, far from being an outmoded rhetoric, could manage and contain the contradictions inherent in the aesthetic appreciation and appropriation of contested colonial …
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Mountains of discontent: Georgian alpinism and the limits of Soviet equality, 1923-1955
… examines the development of an independent mountaineering community in Georgia and its relationship with the Soviet center from the early 1920s until the immediate post-Stalin period. In 1923, a group of Georgian students led by the mathematician Giorgi Nikoladze and the local guide Iagor …
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Human Verses Mountain: Climbing, Language, and the Liveliness of Stone
<p>In the discourse of rock climbing and mountaineering, both for climbers themselves and for the public at large, conflict remains the predominant metaphor for ascent: climbing narratives most often show heroic individuals triumphing over hostile landscapes, conquering their own fears, mastering …
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The socio-cultural practices of the Dorset rock climbing community towards the local environment.
… climbing. Data suggests the role of the British Mountaineering Council and the Access Fund is a passive type of governing, as they work towards raising climbers’ awareness, resolving disputes, raising funds and improving climber’s access to the rock. Lastly, the research highlights the value of …
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Hikers' attitudes to the National Hikingway system in the south-western Cape
… step was to the establish the social milieu of mountaineering in order to place the research in an ethical and historical context; next, the literature on outdoor recreation was reviewed and the major trends in research identified in an attempt to place the research in a methodological paradigm; …
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Investigating route-choice by recreational walkers in the English Lake District
… more extreme recreational activities such as mountaineering, and the significant part of the market who will walk whilst on holiday, or on day visits, but elsewise not frequently. Route-choice was found to be related to, but not dependent on the casual-serious typology: one individual could be …
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Liggaamlike weerbaarheid in onderwysperspektief
… partake in swimming, tennis, jogging, mountaineering, exercise, cycling and other recreational activities during their leisure hours during school term and also during holidays, the school can contribute to the establishment of lasting physical preparedness patterns. In conjunction with …