This book is about the rise of a new ethos in British
mountaineering during the late nineteenth century. It traces how
British attitudes to mountains were transformed by developments
both within the new sport of mountaineering and in the wider
fin-de-siècle culture. The emergence of the new genre of
mountaineering literature, which helped to create a self-conscious
community of climbers with broadly shared values, coincided with a
range of cultural and scientific trends that also influenced the
direction of mountaineering. The author discusses the growing
preoccupation with the physical basis of aesthetic sensations, and
with physicality and materiality in general; the new interest in
the physiology of effort and fatigue; and the characteristically
Victorian drive to enumerate, codify, and classify. Examining a
wide range of texts, from memoirs and climbing club journals to
hotel visitors’ books, he argues that the figure known as the
‘New Mountaineer’ was seen to embody a distinctly modern
approach to mountain climbing and mountain aesthetics. Â
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