Description - Unjustifiable Risk? by Simon Thompson
To the impartial observer Britain does not appear to have
any mountains. Yet the British invented the sport of
mountain climbing and for two periods in history British
climbers led the world in the pursuit of this beautiful
and dangerous obsession. Unjustifiable Risk is the story
of the social, economic and cultural conditions that gave
rise to the sport, and the achievements and motives of
the scientists and poets, parsons and anarchists,
villains and judges, ascetics and drunks that have shaped
its development over the past two hundred years. Today's
climbers would be instantly recognisable to their
Victorian predecessors, with their desire to escape from
the crowded complexity of urban society and willingness
to take "unjustifiable" risk in pursuit of beauty,
adventure and self-fulfilment.
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