Dear colleagues, I`m looking for literature or sources about mountaineering or hiking psychology. I`m interested in the motivation for climbing. I want to get an answer about why people go to the mountains?
If you know any article, book or theory about this, please share with me.
Dear Naira. This is an interesting question. Mountaineering is a sport, and like other sports, the motives are usually about self-fulfilment, achievements, self-challenge, handling uncertainty, risk taking, and making new records. However, as a researcher, I would encourage you to interview people interested in this sport to get the right answers. Good luck
Hi, please read https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/00222216.2019.1627175?needAccess=true&redirect=1, written by my good friends.
Old but still very relevant: book - 'Mountain Experience, The Psychology and Sociology of Adventure', by Richard G. Mitchell, Uni of Chicago Press, 1983. As a climber I recommend it. Also, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi and his concept of 'flow' - in Beyond Boredom and Anxiety (1975) - flow is the key experience climbers feel (and the concept can be applied much broader than that). Contrary to above comment, climbers do not regard climbing as a sport but much more than that - and I think you can get that from copious numbers of climbing books written in the 1960s-1980s in particular.
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