Mountain and the Politics of Representation

Jenny Hall is Senior Lecturer in Tourism and Events at York Business School, York St John University. Martin Hall is Senior Lecturer and Course Leader for Film and Media Studies at York St John University.

• List of Figures Notes on Contributors AcknowledgementsIntroduction Hall and HallCommodification and the Mountain 1. Fiona Mossman: Scripted Summits: Book History, Mountaineering, and the Experiences of Janet Adam Smith (1905-1999) 2. Martin Hall – Tommy Caldwell’s The Push: Climbing, Edgework and Media Perceptions of Risk 3. David Lombard: Thinking with a Mountain: A Narratological and Rhetorical Analysis of the Haptic Sublime in Jon Krakauer’s Mountaineering Memoirs4. James N. Maples and Michael J. Bradley: Transforming the Dirtbag Label in Kentucky’s Red River Gorge 5. Sarah Ives: Decolonizing Mountain Writing: Gender, Race, and the Mini-Memoirs of the Digital AgeIntersectional perspective of Mountaineering 6. Anandarup Biswas: Bengal’s Encounter With the Himalaya: Mountaineering Beyond Conquest 7. Emma Gleadhill: ‘Upon the whole I expect he took me for an aventurière’: British women Grand Tourists’ accounts of mountains and mountaineering 8. Sarah Lonsdale: ‘The Woman Business’: Dorothy Pilley’s Climbing Days 9. Agnieszka Kaczmarek: Wanda Rutkiewicz and Ewa Matuszewska: Deliberations on the auto/biographical 'Na jednej linie (On One Rope)' 10. Jenny Hall - Julie Tullis: Gender and the emotional labour of climbing the ‘Mountain of Mountains’Embodying The Mountain 11. Ben Garlick: The Total Mountain: Nan Shepherd and the Virtual Qualities of Landscape 12. Anna Holman: The Representation of Play in Joe Simpson’s Touching the Void and Paratexts 13. Christopher Kocela: Walking Mountains: Zen practice and ecological awareness in Peter Matthiessen’s The Snow Leopard 14. Paul Gilchrist: Fatherhood, emotional (dis)entanglements and adventurous masculinities: Ben Fogle on EverestConclusion Hall and Hall

‘This collection challenges the mainstream heterogeneous representation of white, male, heroic mountaineering endeavour and takes a wider perspective on the genre…. The Mountain and the Politics of Representation makes an original contribution by focusing on diversity within the traditional memoir category of mountain literature and media representation of mountaineering… Perhaps one of the most significant elements is the way it brings to the fore challenges and issues that continue to directly playout within the mountaineering and climbing community and media.’ Emily Ankers, Leisure Studies