List of Figures Notes on Contributors Acknowledgements Introduction Hall and Hall Commodification and the Mountain 1. Fiona Mossman: Scripted Summits: Book History, Mountaineering, and the Experiences of Janet Adam Smith (1905-1999) 2. Martin Hall - Tommy Caldwell's The Push: Climbing, Edgework and Media Perceptions of Risk 3. David Lombard: Thinking with a Mountain: A Narratological and Rhetorical Analysis of the Haptic Sublime in Jon Krakauer's Mountaineering Memoirs 4. James N. Maples and Michael J. Bradley: Transforming the Dirtbag Label in Kentucky's Red River Gorge 5. Sarah Ives: Decolonizing Mountain Writing: Gender, Race, and the Mini-Memoirs of the Digital Age Intersectional perspective of Mountaineering 6.

Anandarup Biswas: Bengal's Encounter With the Himalaya: Mountaineering Beyond Conquest 7. Emma Gleadhill: 'Upon the whole I expect he took me for an aventurière': British women Grand Tourists' accounts of mountains and mountaineering 8. Sarah Lonsdale: 'The Woman Business': Dorothy Pilley's Climbing Days 9. Agnieszka Kaczmarek: Wanda Rutkiewicz and Ewa Matuszewska: Deliberations on the auto/biographical 'Na jednej linie (On One Rope)' 10. Jenny Hall - Julie Tullis: Gender and the emotional labour of climbing the 'Mountain of Mountains' Embodying The Mountain 11. Ben Garlick: The Total Mountain: Nan Shepherd and the Virtual Qualities of Landscape 12. Anna Holman: The Representation of Play in Joe Simpson's Touching the Void and Paratexts 13. Christopher Kocela: Walking Mountains: Zen practice and ecological awareness in Peter Matthiessen's The Snow Leopard 14.

Paul Gilchrist: Fatherhood, emotional (dis)entanglements and adventurous masculinities: Ben Fogle on Everest Conclusion Hall and Hall.