What qualities was the successful mountaineer or explorer proven to possess? Manliness, one might answer straight away - that very Victorian concept which would morph in the twentieth century into machismo. Climbing a mountain provided a confirmation of one´s strength, an affidativ of pluck and potency, an assurance of resourcefulness, self-sustenance and manhood.
Reading this, I´m not surprised that misogyny is still such a huge thing in the world of mountaineering.
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