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    Łucja Rautenstrauchowa's In and beyond the Alps: the Case of a Sentimental Italian Tour by Magdalena Ożarska

    Published 2013-06-01
    “… The article presents Łucja Rautenstrauchowa’s 1847 In and Beyond the Alps as an example of the Italian tour, a 19th-century sub-genre of the travelogue. …”
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    Le toposcope et l’indicateur des alpes by Rachel Floch

    Published 2024-11-01
    “…The orientation tables produced by the Touring Club de France (TCF) at the beginning of the 20th century display composite representations of the landscape on circular or semicircular platforms made of enamelled lava. …”
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    Analysing the Transformation of Sports Practices in Less-Developed Mountains Based on Huts Attendance Data. Application to the Valais Alps by Jacques Mourey, Christophe Clivaz, Philippe Bourdeau

    Published 2023-03-01
    “…An example of analyses, based on statistical processing of the number of overnight stays, as well as semi-structured interviews with hut keepers and owners, will be presented for a sample of huts in the Valais Alps (Switzerland). This analysis allowed us to confirm (i) the general decline in the number of mountaineers visiting the high mountains in summer, with an 11% drop in the number of overnight stays between 1995–1998 and 2016–2019 in the 8 huts studied; (ii) the concentration of mountaineers on technically easy and/or emblematic and/or quickly accessible routes; and (iii) the development of ski touring, with a 6% increase in the number of overnight stays in spring between 1995–1998 and 2016–2019.…”
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    La Sacralisation littéraire et picturale de la montagne au XIXe siècle : (re)naissances et épiphanies by Françoise Dupeyron-Lafay

    Published 2008-05-01
    “…Mountains, that had been objects of indifference, fear, or even terror and loathing until the mid-18th century, became literary and pictorial subjects in their own right from the Romantic period onwards, especially in the wake of Rousseau’s La Nouvelle Héloïse (1761)—that radically changed the approach to nature—, and the first ascents of Mont Blanc in the 1780s that marked the beginning of Alpine tourism, and turned Chamonix (and later the Swiss Alps) into indispensable features of the "Grand Tour". …”
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    Analyser l’évolution des pratiques sportives en montagne peu aménagée à partir des données de fréquentation des cabanes. Application aux Alpes Valaisannes by Jacques Mourey, Christophe Clivaz, Philippe Bourdeau

    Published 2023-03-01
    “…An example of analyses, based on statistical processing of the number of overnight stays, as well as semi-structured interviews with hut keepers and owners, will be presented for a sample of huts in the Valais Alps (Switzerland). This analysis allowed us to confirm (i) the general decline in the number of mountaineers visiting the high mountains in summer, with an 11% drop in the number of overnight stays between 1995-98 and 2016-19 in the 8 huts studied; (ii) the concentration of mountaineers on technically easy and/or emblematic and/or quickly accessible routes; and (iii) the development of ski touring, with a 6% increase in the number of overnight stays in spring between 1995-1998 and 2016-2019.…”
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