"Mountain of destiny" : Nanga Parbat and its path into the German imagination

Zusammenfassung: "Never has a mountain occupied the German imagination longer and more thoroughly than Nanga Parbat, the world's ninth-highest peak, located in present-day Pakistan. Repeatedly referred to in the 1930s as the German "mountain of destiny," over a period of roughly two decades from 1932 to 1953 it became not only the destination of six German mountaineering expeditions, but also the quintessential German "mountain of the mind" onto whose slopes German mountaineers, mountaineering officials, politicians, writers, and filmmakers projected some of the most pressing social, political, and cultural concerns of their times. This book is a detailed study of that process"--(Provided by publisher.)

Object Details

• Location: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• ISBN: 9781571139580
• Dimensions: 24 cm
• Extent: viii, 282 Seiten
• Language: Englisch
• Notes: Illustrationen ; Includes bibliographical references and index

Classification and Topics

• Keyword: Geschichte 1919-1953 ; Mountaineering ; Mountaineers ; Germany ; Pakistan--Nanga Parbat. ; History. ; Deutsche ; Expeditionsbergsteigen ; Nanga Parbat

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (where): Rochester, NY
• (who): Camden House
• (when): [2016]
• Creator: Höbusch, Harald

Further information

• Table of contents: I. Mountains in the German Imagination 1919-53 -- Between the Wars (1919-39) -- The postwar years (1945-53) -- II. Imprinting Nanga Parbat -- Reading defeat -- Narrating success -- III. Imagi(ni)ng the German "Mountain of destiny" -- Hiding the obvious -- Seeing the unseen
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• Last update: 11.03.2025, 12:34 PM CET