Translated by Katarzyna Strębska-Liszewska
Not Much Has Been Written about the Mountains… On the Subject of Mountain Studies
On the one hand, mountains are the “inseparable background” – the most important, indispensable background, without them not only there would be no hikes and adventures, no accounts of high-mountain expeditions – that piece of knowledge about oneself, about being, which became part of mountaineer’s identity, but also the very subject of mountain studies. On the other hand, it is an “inaccessible background” that eludes language, does not lend itself to description (Pacukiewicz 2010a: 225). A considerable amount has been written about mountains…