Climbing - Philosophy for Everyone: Because It's ThereISBN: 978-1-4443-3486-9
Paperback
256 pages
August 2010, Wiley-Blackwell
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Climbing - Philosophy for Everyone presents a
collection of intellectually stimulating new essays that address
the philosophical issues relating to risk, ethics, and other
aspects of climbing that are of interest to everyone from novice
climbers to seasoned mountaineers.
- Represents the first collection of essays to exclusively address the many philosophical aspects of climbing
- Includes essays that challenge commonly accepted views of climbing and climbing ethics
- Written accessibly, this book will appeal to everyone from novice climbers to seasoned mountaineers
- Includes a foreword written by Hans Florine
- Shortlisted for the Boardman Tasker Prize for Mountain Literature, 2010