A mountain feeling

continued part 1, part 2 of the present the content: the ‘true’ mountaineer: communal narratives of identity and mountaineering as moral source; chapter 5. the calculable and the incalculable: narratives of safety, danger and death; conclusions; mountaineering as a ‘living tradition’; being a mountaineer in an inhospitable world; survival strategies: staying safe in the mountains; mountaineering, mortality and death....

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part 1 present the content: introduction and background to the study, the research process: approach, methods and interpretation, the narrative construction of mountaineering selves, selection of interviewees, supporting literature and other media, entering the social world of mountaineering, making choices...

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Without knowing why, one hesitates to ask directions from the gnarled solitary figures spied now and then on crumbling doorsteps or on the sloping, rock-strewn meadows. Those figures are so silent and furtive that one feels somehow confronted by forbidden things, with which it would be better to have nothing to do. When a rise in the road brings the mountains in view above the deep woods, the feeling of strange uneasiness is increased.

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