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Jun 23

Mountains of the mind: a history of a fascination. A review

Mountains of the mind: a history of a fascination This is a brilliant book.  Its central idea, that few other mountaineering books have touched on, is that what mountains mean is socially constructed.  This is the ‘mountains of the mind’ idea.  Which might sound like a strange statement.  Clearly, literal, physical masses of rock and …

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