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Aconcagua: The Invention of Mountaineering on America’s Highest Peak

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Aconcagua is the highest mountain in the Americas and the tallest mountain on the earth out of doors of the Himalayas. Situated in the Andes Mountains of Argentina, near the city of Mendoza, Aconcagua has been luring European mountain climbers since 1883, when a German ge-ologist nearly reached the mountain’s summit. (A Swiss climber after all made the ascent in 1897.) In this fascinating book, Joy Logan explores the many impacts of hiking’s “discovery” of Aconcagua including its effect on how local indigenous history is understood. The consequences still resonate nowadays, as the region has develop into a magnet for “adventure travelers,” with about 7,000 climbers and trekkers from in every single place the world visiting every year.

Having done fieldwork on Aconcagua for six years, Logan offers keen insights into how the invention of hiking in the nineteenth century—and adventure tourism a century later—have both shaped and been shaped by local and global cultural narratives. She examines the roles and functions of mountain guides, especially in regard to notions of gender and nation; re-reads the hiking stories forged by explorers, scientists, tourism officials, and the gear industry; and considers the distinctions between foreign and Argentine climbers (some of whom are celebrities in their own right).

In Logan’s revealing analysis, Aconcagua is emblematic of the tensions produced by modernity, nation-building, tourism development, and re-ethnification. The evolution of mountain hiking on Aconcagua registers seismic shifts in attitudes toward adventure, the national, and the global. With an eye for detail and a flair for description, Logan invites her readers onto the mountain and into the lives it supports.

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