{"product_id":"false-summit","title":"False Summit","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe race to climb Everest catapulted mountain climbing, with its accompanying images of conquest and sport, into the public sphere on a global scale. But as a metaphor for the pinnacle of human achievement, mountaineering remains the preserve of traditional white male heroism.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eFalse Summit \u003c\/i\u003eunpacks gender politics in the expedition narratives and memoirs of mountaineers in the Himalayas and the Karakoram. Why are women still a minority in the world's highest places? Julie Rak proposes that the genre has itself reached a \"false summit\" – a peak that proves not to be the pinnacle – and that mountaineering is not ready to welcome other ways of climbing or other kinds of climbers. For more than two centuries mountaineering, as an activity and as an ideal, has helped shape how the self is understood within the context of conquest, adventure, and proximity to risk. As climbing shows signs of becoming more diverse, Rak asks why change is so hard to achieve and why gender bias and other inequities exist in climbing at all.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eExploring classic and lesser-known expedition accounts from Everest, K2, and Annapurna, \u003ci\u003eFalse Summit\u003c\/i\u003e helps us understand why mountaineering remains one of the most important ways to articulate gender identities and politics.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"McGill-Queen's University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Product","offer_id":54222359986520,"sku":"9780228006268","price":128.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780228006268__6772e43ca2f86.jpg?v=1741160205","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/false-summit","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}