Table of Contents

1. Introduction: Being Modern at the fin-de-siècle.- 2. Mountaineers in the City.- 3. Mountaineers against the City.- 4. Constructing the Alps.- 5. Time.- 6. Risk and Danger.- 7. Beyond the Nation.- 8. The Indoors in the Outdoors.- 9. Conclusion.- 

About the Author

Benjamin M. Anderson is a multi-award winning Lecturer in Twentieth Century European History at Keele University, UK, as well as a BBC Radio 3/AHRC New Generation Thinker 2018 who has published and broadcast widely on environmental histories of leisure. He is also an enthusiastic, if recently-lapsed mountaineer and climber.