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A preface to the Master Thesis

The Dealing with death in mountaineering

Tobias J. Humm

Preface

The topic of my Master's thesis, though, has been submitted to an art college, not one that deals primarily with art, but with culture in a more general sense. I will look at interpreting some features of a particular social practice and. The selected field is how to deal with the death in mountaineering in all its forms. is


While in everyday life as possible to avoid any risk or at least insured is in mountaineering sought precisely this risk, and the limits of just what can be with specific training and an ever-improving technology always weiter hinausgeschoben. So werden Berg e besteigbar, die vor Jahrzehnten noch als unbezwingbar gegolten hatten, und Routen die vor kurzem noch mehrtägigen Expeditionen glichen, werden von Spitzenkletteren in wenigen Stunden durchrannt.


Ein ständiger Begleiter bei den immer höheren Schwierigkeiten, die dabei gemeistert werden ist der mögliche Tod. Kein noch so gutes Seil, kein noch so hartes Training und auch nicht die modernsten Wetterberichte vermögen das Risiko eines Absturzes, einer Lawine, oder eines lebensbedrohlichen Wettersturzes je völlig auszuschalten.


Ist es so, dass Menschen, the increase in their spare time to the mountains and take this high personal risks, the risk associated with their actions, on the one hand and looking the other hand, displace? Looking
in which they grow in the most difficult routes through walls or ridges climb as high as possible without artificial oxygen to try to get along and overcome with the minimum of material and securing the greatest possible difficulty nothing more than this mortal danger?
If it the proximity of a possible crash, but not avoided looking for?
But when an accident occurs and someone from a group, incurs injury, death or even a whole Group of climbers crashes, is buried in an avalanche or freeze at high altitude, how is this event that attracted much attention in the media usually processed by the affected community? It is not simply displaced from consciousness?


the displacement does not happen simply by the fact that nobody talks about it, and that the death of a fellow mountain is easily integrated as part of the game in this?
that analyzed the causes of the accident, and conclusions are drawn. Are not the same day by the feeling of security that we now know what the injured friend has done wrong, the difficulties of routes increased, so that really is at a higher awareness of the danger and better insight into the potential danger of doing the same objective risk accepted?
So one hand is not used for risk management that guarantees that the risk is kept low, on the other hand, the difficulties a stale increased steadily, to feel the nearness of death anyway?


To understand the policy group, to take a look at the history of the perception of the mountains from antiquity to the present.

Why is the seat of the Greek gods on the highest mountain in ancient Greece? Why
Moses receives the Tablets of the Law on Sinai, and why Jesus is the Sermon on the Mount, where he announced his most radical ideas , a mountain ?

The mountains were charged excessive and forth from ancient myth with meaning, and so is the death in Bergen in the early days of mountaineering in the 19th Century still influenced by mythical transfiguration.
end of the 20th Century does the transfiguration clear from a sober consideration is spreading.
Death in the mountains is increasingly depicted as a part of everyday culture, the leisure culture.