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Paperback False Summit: Gender in Mountaineering Nonfiction Book
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ISBN: 0228006279

ISBN13: 9780228006275

False Summit: Gender in Mountaineering Nonfiction

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The race to climb Everest catapulted mountain climbing, with its accompanying images of conquest and sport, into the public sphere on a global scale. But as a metaphor for the pinnacle of human achievement, mountaineering remains the preserve of traditional white male heroism.False Summit unpacks gender politics in the expedition narratives and memoirs of mountaineers in the Himalayas and the Karakoram. Why are women still a minority in the world's...

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