Mountaineering narratives are ripe for ecocritical study. Climbing
books describe feats of daring, often ending in heroic success or
miserable tragedy. But few have asked what implications
mountaineering literature may have on our cultural mindset and
environmental ethics. This thesis explores that question, and
examines how metaphors in mountaineering narratives can reveal
underlying environmental ethics. While predominant metaphors
visualize the mountains and environment as objectives, enemies, and
arenas for human competition, more recent mountaineering texts
offer a wider range of metaphors, including metaphors of goddess
and spirit. These metaphors encourage a sustainable environmental
ethics by implying an interconnected relationship between earth and
humanity, which may in turn have positive consequences for human
society. By understanding the inherent assumptions in language, we
can choose to resist metaphors that allow us to harm the world and
instead choose metaphors that will help us keep the entire biotic
community beautiful and stable.
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