One Price of Acrophilia
- 2 December 1971
- journal article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 285 (23) , 1318-1319
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm197112022852310
Abstract
Man's view of mountains has varied over the centuries. To the ancient Greeks and many Asiatics, high mountains were the inviolable abode of the gods; Renaissance man feared them as the home of demons. Ruskin praised their beauty from below, and 19th-century alpinists sought peace in walks and climbs among them. The current fevered century regards mountains as challenges to be overcome: courtship of beauty has been replaced by conquest of a foe... and a new "disease" has resulted.In this impatient and highly competitive society it is not surprising that so many climbers hurry to "bag" their peaks. Not . . .Keywords
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