Mountains appear in the oldest known maps yet their representation
has proven a notoriously difficult challenge for map makers. In
this essay, Ernesto Capello surveys the broad history of relief
representation in cartography with an emphasis on the allegorical,
commercial and political uses of mapping mountains. After an
initial overview and critique of the traditional historiography and
development of techniques of relief representation, the essay
features four clusters of mountain mapping emphases. These include
visions of mountains as paradise, the mountain as site of colonial
and postcolonial encounter, the development of elevation profiles
and panoramas, and mountains as mass-marketed touristed
itineraries.
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