Life and Death on Mt. Everest Quotes

“[M]ountaineering as a sport both emanates from and addresses itself back to (and back against) the normal patterns of middle class life. One of the dominant discourses of mountaineering [...] positions it critically against "bourgeois" existence, even as the sport demands the resources made possible by such an existence.”
― Sherry B. Ortner, Life and Death on Mt. Everest