The Summits of Modern Man: Mountaineering After the Enlightenment by Peter H. Hansen

The Summits of Modern Man: Mountaineering After the Enlightenment

Peter H. Hansen

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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...

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