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Excerpt - Front Matter: "Ski-mountaineering is no mere varia- tion of mountaineering. It is the result of the marriage of two great sports, mountaineering and skiing.' The reasons for the increasing popularity of ski mountaineering ... "
Excerpt - page 2: " ... component of alpinism, the broad appreciation of mountain regions that includes issues of sport, recreation, tourism, protection of biodiversity and natural resources, appreciation of indigenous peoples ... "
Excerpt - page 159: "With us, speed was not a prime factor, as it has become in recent sport-mountaineering developments on eight-thousanders. Above everything else, we needed ... "
Excerpt - page 27: "though not exclusively) British invention of climbing as a form of recreation, sport, and fellowship back in Alpine Europe. Unlike the conquest of the Himalaya, the conquest of the Alps is a thrice ... "
