Abstract
In the conclusion, a short analysis of a founding myth of ‘British’ rock climbing—the ‘Munich Climb’ incident—demonstrates how far contests over the meanings of modernity continued to shape mountain leisure cultures into the twentieth century. It goes on to explore the implications of understanding outdoors leisure as a means through which mountaineers and ramblers could express their modernity, and how we might consider later movements of the twentieth century and beyond.
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John R. Jenkins, ‘Visit of German Climbing Party’, RC Journal 1936, pp. 317–18 (p. 318), in Dulcibel Jenkins (ed.), Chronicles of John R. Jenkins 1913–1947: Mountaineer, Miner and Quaker (Wittering, 1987), pp. 26–27.
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Jenkins, ‘Visit’, p. 318.
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Jenkins, ‘Visit’, p. 318.
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Jenkins, ‘Visit’, p. 317.
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John R. Jenkins, ‘A Light Expedition to the Central Caucasus, 1937’, Alpine Journal (1937), pp. 12–33 (p. 12), in Jenkins, Chronicles, pp. 28–53; John R. Jenkins, ‘Mountaineering and War’, RC Journal (1939), pp. 113–20 (p. 117), in Jenkins, Chronicles, pp. 91–98; John R. Jenkins, ‘Ideas: The Social Gospel of Christ, July 5th’, in Jenkins, Chronicles, pp. 299–307; Lawrence Travis and A. S. P., ‘In Memoriam: John Jenkins’, RC Journal (1948), pp. 46–49 (p. 47), in Jenkins, Chronicles, pp. 321–24. An unclear reference suggests that Jenkins may have been antisemitic: John R. Jenkins, ‘A Socialist in Search of a Party’, in Jenkins, Chronicles, pp. 294–96 (p. 296).
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Jim Perrin, Menlove: The Life of John Menlove Edwards (Glasgow, 1993 [1985]), pp. 90–179.
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Wilfred Noyce, Mountains and Men (London, 1954 [1947]), p. 21; Perrin, Menlove, p. 160.
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Perrin, Menlove, pp. 99–147, 224–63.
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Perrin, Menlove, pp. 139. Pitons certainly have that role in Edwards’ 1939 Allegory of his relationship with Noyce, ‘Scenery for a Murder’, CC Journal (1939), in Perrin, Menlove, pp. 273–80.
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Noyce, Mountains and Men, p. 50.
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John R. Jenkins, ‘Marxism and Mountaineering’, RC Journal (1942), pp. 325–34, in Jenkins, Chronicles, pp. 127–37 (p. 131)
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Jenkins, ‘Marxism’, p. 131.
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Jenkins, ‘Marxism’, p. 132.
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Jenkins, ‘Marxism’, p. 136.
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Eugen Guido Lammer, Jungborn: Bergfahrten und Höhengedanken eines einsamen Pfadsuchers (Munich, 1935), pp. 239–61.
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See Martin Achrainer and Nicholas Mailänder, ‘“Der Verein”, and Florian Trojer, “Südtirol”’, in Martin Achrainer, Friederike Kaiser and Florian Trojer (eds.), Berg Heil! Alpenverein und Bergsteigen 1918–1945 (Cologne, 2011), pp. 193–318 (pp. 224–48, 268–300) and pp. 329–82.
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Of these, skiing has received the closest analysis: Robert Groß, ‘Uphill and Downhill Histories. How Winter Tourism Transformed Alpine Regions in Vorarlberg, Austria—1930 to 1970’, Zeitschrift für Tourismuswissenschaft 1 (2017), pp. 115–39; Andrew Denning, Skiing into Modernity: A Cultural and Environmental History (Oakland, CA, 2015).
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The contests on this are well laid out in Susan Denyer, ‘The Lake District Landscape: Cultural or Natural?’, in John K. Walton and Jason Wood (eds.), The Making of a Cultural Landscape: The English Lake District as Tourist Destination 1750–2010 (London, 2013), pp. 3–30.
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Anderson, B. (2020). Conclusion. In: Cities, Mountains and Being Modern in fin-de-siècle England and Germany. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-54000-3_9
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