วันอาทิตย์ที่ 12 สิงหาคม พ.ศ. 2555

Behold Mount Everest, reduced to adventure tourism | Jonathan Jones

Everest is not docile, but this line of climbers was seduced by a fantasy that everything should be easier and faster

This is a picture of everything that went wrong in the relationship of humanity with nature. Amid the vast rock of Mount Everest, a long line of people standing in the snow in traffic pedestrian strange. Four people were recently killed in a single day on Everest that day of 150 climbers climbed. It has been argued that the congestion of man has contributed to the tragedy, which seems very likely that consideration of this image. But, as well as help to explain the death, is a picture of how deeply we are failing to have any sort of decent respect for our world: how our love affair with nature has become sick and twisted

Brits are looking back at 60 years of history. The popularity of the Diamond Jubilee of Queen certainly has less to do with respect for the majesty of a recognition that the reign of Elizabeth II spans 60 years of history to think of ourselves of its creation, get a view over a period of radical change. It turns out that one of the most memorable events in the early reign of Queen was the "conquest" of Everest with a statement of the Commonwealth. May 29, 1953 Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay became the first human beings ever known have remained atop the highest mountain in the world.

is instructive to compare today's photograph of a line of ants, as the climbers with the image of Hillary Tenzing Norgay on the summit of Everest. In the photograph from 1953 of a man is alone in the snowy summit, which seemed almost on the verge of empty space as a deep blue, dark as thick around dressed. This image of the solitary explorer of the realms of high mountains have cold feet in the romanticism of the early 19: Tenzing Norgay was the only one in the mountains, as Caspar David Friedrich Wanderer above the Sea of ??Fog in the painting of 1818 which expresses perfectly the romantic affinity for heights far.

Climbing as a sport

came the Romantic movement. Helvellyn by Sir Walter Scott poem talks about his solo ascent of the peak Laklelands and meditate on the death of a hiker there, whose body lay in his only companion, a faithful dog: these images from the world of people each days - and the lonely death - are part of the myth of the mountain is still very much alive in the stories Touching the Void

, of course, an illusion. Everest is not sweet. The idea is controllable again exposed as a parasitic fantastic. Modern communications are not recorded when they are too high for helicopters. The tail of the multitudes beyond death and dying. This surreal image is sad, not only about Everest, but it captures the illusions that accelerate the world toward environmental catastrophe.

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