Rethinking Geographical Explorations in Extreme Environments: From the Arctic to the Mountaintops

Focusing on extreme environments, from Umberto Nobile’s expedition to the Arctic to the commercialization of Mt Everest, this volume examines global environmental margins, how they are conceived and how perceptions have changed. Mountaintops and Arctic environments are the settings of social encounters, political strategies, individual enterprises, geopolitical tensions, decolonial practises, and scientific experiments.

Concentrating on mountaineering and Arctic exploration between 1880 – 19...