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Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment Advance Access originally published online on July 28, 2009
Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment 2009 16(3):625-630; doi:10.1093/isle/isp052
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Going to Die

Cassandra Kircher

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John Muir, the naturalist, who in 1914 died of pneumonia in a Los Angeles hospital, wrote, "I never have held death in contempt, though in the course of my explorations I have oftentimes felt that to meet one's fate on a noble mountain, or in the heart of a glacier, would be blessed as compared with death from disease, or from some shabby lowland accident" (55).

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   MOUNTAINEERING FATALITIES IN MOUNT RANIER NATIONAL PARK AREA, 1897–1969
 

Number who fell: 12

Number who slid: 5

Number who disappeared in snowstorms: 4

Number who contracted pulmonary edema: 2

Number hit from rock/ice fall: 3

Number hit by exposure: 3

Number hit by avalanche: 1

Number on a collapsing snow bridge at the wrong time: 1

Total: 35

(Molenaar 278–79)

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Elevations over 10,000 feet can just make the human body give out. Is it the beauty of it all? The close-up, on-high perspective of peaks and canyons . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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