Mountaineering Tourism

Pomfret, Gill; Doran, Adele

doi:10.4324/9781315769202

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“…This growing number of visitors was part of a vast paradigm shift concerning mountains that had begun in the previous century. The causes of this shift are numerous, but at this point, mountains were no longer seen solely as inhospitable places where people venture only out of necessity [17,18]. The visitors took advantage of advances in transportation with improved rail networks and cross-Channel steamers which made the travel to the Alps easier [19][20][21].…”

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“…Their readers, who wished to experience by themselves these sceneries, ventured in these landscapes. In turn, they tended to write down their own impressions, giving rise to a body of travel and mountain literature [18,19,21]. However, the middle of the nineteenth century saw a clear and rapid decline in both the scientific and Romantic motives [19].…”

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The history of peak bagging

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2024

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This paper explores the history of peak bagging, a form of mountaineering with a distinct ethos based on the concept of summit list. Despite its steady expansion since its inception in Scotland in 1891, this discipline, which now counts tens of thousands of practitioners worldwide, has been surprisingly neglected by researchers. The initial section of the article examines the historical context of peak bagging's emergence from the late nineteenth-century British mountaineering milieu, as well as its international development in the early twentieth century. The text then proceeds to scrutinize the impact of the popularization of outdoor recreational activities in the decades following the end of the Second World War. I will subsequently demonstrate how the development of modern cartography, global positioning system, and, most importantly, the advent of the Internet, have given peak bagging its current form. In the next section, I’ll consider the prevailing trends within the discipline, with a particular focus on the race for records, be they speed records or the achievement of increasingly ambitious lists. The paper will conclude with a review of the principal challenges currently facing peak bagging.

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The history of peak bagging

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2024

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“…These interactions offer a host of health and well-being benefits (Romagosa et al 2015), along with economic benefits to local communities (Worboys et al 2015). In mountainprotected areas, including parks established to conserve outstanding natural features, tourists can engage in a range of activities including mountaineering, hiking, sightseeing, skiing, bird watching, and fishing (Martínez Pastur et al 2016;Musa et al 2016). As a result, some mountain-protected areas are popular tourism destinations, with estimates of 15-20% of the over one billion international tourists each year visiting these regions (Debarbieux et al 2014).…”

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“…Social media provide outlets for visitors desiring to share information about their travel, including intense experiences in areas known for their conservation value, remoteness, and iconic features. Summiting peaks, especially the highest in a region, is often seen as a personal achievement (Musa et al 2016) and sharing experiences has been found to be a key motivation in sharing photos on social media (Oeldorf-Hirsch and Shyam Sundar 2016).…”

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Using crowd-sourced photos to assess seasonal patterns of visitor use in mountain-protected areas

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Managing protected areas effectively requires information about patterns of visitor use, but these data are often limited. We explore how geotagged photos on Flickr, a popular photo-sharing social-media site, can generate hotspot maps and distribution models of temporal and spatial patterns of use in two mountain-protected areas of high conservation value. In Aconcagua Provincial Park (Argentina), two routes to the summit of Aconcagua were used in summer, but most visitors stayed close to the main road, using formal and informal walking trails and the Visitor Centre, while in winter, there was very limited visitation. In Kosciuszko National Park (Australia), alpine walking trails were popular in summer, but in winter, most visitors stayed in the lower altitude ski resorts and ski trails. Results demonstrate the usefulness of social-media data alone as well as a complement for visitor monitoring, providing spatial and temporal information for site-specific and park-level management of visitors and potential impacts in conservation areas.

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“…These changes are generally viewed positively as making a summit bid more successful. Socially, shifts have been identified in motivation and time commitment to mountaineering activities, with more people opting for shorter (aircraft access) guided trips (Musa et al 2015;Wilson et al 2015).…”

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confidence: 99%