How masculinity shapes climbers on the world’s highest peaks

A brief video focusing on what the mountaineering documentary Meru can tell us about the relationship between mountaineering and toxic masculinity. Specifically, I look at the writings of alpinists like Reinhold Messner and the actions of Conrad Anker, Jimmy Chin, and Renan Ozturk to show how the high peaks have become a traumatic proving ground for hypermasculinity.

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Resources:
1. The “Hypermasculine” Landscape of High-altitude Mountaineering: https://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?cc=mfsfront;c=mfs;c=mfsfront;idno=ark5583.0014.004;rgn=main;view=text;xc=1;g=mfsg
2. Social Climbing on Annapurna: Gender in
High-altitude Mountaineering Narratives: https://journals.library.ualberta.ca/index.php/ESC/article/download/9056/7258
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