Mountain Experience: The Psychology and Sociology of Adventure
Format:
Book
Publication Date:
Nov 30, 1984
Publisher:
University of Chicago Press
Sources ID:
36196
Collection:
Contemplation and Ecology
Visibility:
Public (group default)
Abstract:
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Richard Mitchell address a question that has continually put to mountain climbers and has never received a truly good answer: namely, why do they climb mountains? His attempt to answer this questions draws on the psychological and sociological literatures. His focus is on the average or typical climber.