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In this article, the author narrates the experience of ascending the mountain Chandra Bhaga 13 (CB 13) in the Himalayas as well as the problems (especially environmental and social) connected with Himalayan mountaineering in India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan and China. The Indo-Pakistan conflict on Kashmir is briefly mentioned. (DÜI-Sen)

Activities in a natural environment that involve risk and danger to the participant have become more popular over the last decade. This article describes a study on the motivations for high-altitude mountaineering at Mount McKinley in Denali National Park, Alaska. Using a principal components factor analysis, five factors emerged, accounting for 92% of the explained variance. Overall, scale items such as exhilaration, excitement, and accomplishment appeared as important motivating variables. Risk taking as a motivating variable did not generate a high level of motivational importance. Based on experience levels in mountaineering, a number of differences were observed in the patterns of motivational importance. The findings suggest that participants in risk recreation report different patterns of motivations that are contingent on their levels of experience.

Explores altered, marginal, and neglected forms of sovereignty's manifestation; some focus on use of the term "Sherpas," originally meaning Himalayan people skilled in mountaineering and living on the borders of Nepal and Tibet. Topics include the British colonial raj and debate between Chinese and Tibetan authorities over the Panchen Lama.

The mountaineering exploits, unique culture, and high-altitude life of the Sherpas of Nepal have caught the world's imagination and made them one of the most famous of the multitude of peoples who give the geography of the Himalaya a cultural complexity to match the intricate contours of its terrain. Sherpas have been the subject of scores of books, articles, films, and television documentaries and they have attracted so much academic interest that Sherpa studies have become a significant genre in Himalayan anthropological and geographical literature