Other Everests: One mountain, many worlds / Paul Gilchrist, Peter Hansen, Jonathan Westaway.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gilchrist, Paul, editor.

Hansen, Peter, editor.

Westaway, Jonathan, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mountaineering--Social aspects--Everest, Mount (China and Nepal)--History.

Mountaineering.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Manchester Manchester University Press, [2024]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

A hundred years after the tragic 1924 British Everest expedition, this collection explores the wider social and cultural history of the mountain. Mount Everest looms large in the popular imagination. Since the deaths of mountaineers George Mallory and Andrew Irvine in 1924, histories of the mountain have overwhelmingly focused on the mythologies of western male adventure and conquest. But there are many more stories waiting to be told. Other Everests brings together new voices and perspectives on the historical and cultural significance of Everest in the modern world. The book shines a light on the overlooked role of local people and high-altitude workers, while also revealing the significant contributions women have made to climbing the mountain and writing its history. It explores the depiction of Everest in a range of media and investigates how the forces of nationalism and commercialism have shaped many different Everests. After years of exploitation, Indigenous people are now reclaiming Mount Everest in the twenty-first century. Other Everests re-examines the past and present of the worlds highest peak, presenting an exciting vision of what Everest might become in the future.

Contents:

Front Matter

Contents

List of figures

List of contributors

Acknowledgements

Introduction / Peter H. Hansen, Paul Gilchrist, Jonathan Westaway

1 The immovable goddess / Ruth Gamble

2 Naming Mount Everest / Felix de Montety

3 Re-activating the expeditionary archive / Felix Driver

4 The benefit of chocolate and cold tea / Sarah Pickman

5 Far-away frontiers and spiritual sanctuaries / Tim Chamberlain

6 Seeing histories from the margins / Jayeeta Sharma

7 Women on Everest / Jenny Hall

8 Rewriting Irvine into Everest / Anna Saroldi

9 Expecting hypermasculinity from a woman mountaineer / Agnieszka Irena Kaczmarek

10 The Slovenian Everest 1979 / Peter Miksa, Matija Zorn

11 Reclaiming Everest / Ian Bellows

12 Sherpas Everest and expedition conglomerate / Young Hoon Oh

13 The numbers game on Mount Everest / Pradeep Bashyal, Ankit Babu Adhikari

14 Digital media on Everest / Jolynna Sinanan

15 Thin ice, thin air / Yvonne Reddick

16 Everests on stage / Jonathan Pitches

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

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Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed March 02 2026)

ISBN:

9781526179173

1526179172