Assignments

Pick a Mountain Assignment

Pick a Mountaineer

Devils Tower Assignment

Prospectus and Sources Assignment

Final Paper Assignment

1 – 2 – 3 Assignment

Letter to Yvon Chouinard

HSTR 467 – Final Exam Review – 2019

Readings

First Day:

CFP – Global Mountains Conference

Climbing Theory: A Handbook

CFP Panel on Verticality – ICHG2018 Warsaw

Malone Conference: Heights and Depths of History

Centaurus Proposal

Week One:

Long – Wall Rats – Yosemite

Rosenfeld – Why Men Climb

Huxley – Chamois

Bare – What Everest Climbers Really Meant

Week Two:

Bigg et al – Introduction

Cosgrove and della Dora – High Places

Reidy, “The Most Recent Orogeny”

Reidy, Halford John Mackinder

Week Three:

MacFarlane, Mountains of the Mind

Week Four:

Reidy – Tides of History – Chapter Eight

Reidy – Mountains and Minds – Chicago Proposal

Week Five:

Reidy, “Coming Down”

Reidy, “The Strange Deaths, Varied Lives, and Ultimate Resurrection of John Tyndall”

Assignment: Pick a Mountain

Week Six:

Taylor – Mapping Adventure

Callis – Introduction and Climbing History

Week Seven:

Devil’s Tower

Week Eight:

Schrepfer – Introduction

Schrepfer – Part I

Schrepfer – Chapter 8

Schrepfer – Epilogue

The Curse of the Female First Ascent

Week Nine:

Herrer, White Spider

Week Ten:

Ortner, Life and Death

Week Eleven:

Greene, “Performing Socialism at Altitude”

Week Twelve:

Project Prospectus and Sources Assignment

Bozeman Rock Climbing – Chapter One – Introduction

Bozeman Rock Climbing – Chapter Two – Geology

Bozeman Rock Climbing – Chapter Three – History

Week Twelve:

Taylor – Moralists

Taylor – Dirtbags

Week Thirteen:

“Patagonia’s Philosopher King” in The New Yorker

Chouinard_1972

You can also see the original one here: http://climbaz.com/chouinard72/chouinard.html

Chouinard – Coonyard I

Chouinard – Coonyard II

“How to Save the Planet” in Fast Company

Assignment: Letter to Yvon Chouinard

Week Fifteen:

Project Assignment

Final Exam — Review Sheet