Marek Pacukiewicz

The author puts forward the thesis that nowadays in Polish mountaineering literature (auto)biographical forms replace the older genre of expedition books. This change is the effect of the search for fully revealed “real,” and somehow “naked” man as the main source of contemporary’s cultural discourses, which was diagnosed by Michel Foucault as the “anthropological sleep.” The article is an attempt to analyse the mountaineering discourse as the set of transformations of myth (in accordance with Claude Lévi-Strauss’s understanding).