Bolivian-born US climber, skier, photographer and writer. Author of the seminal essay Games Climbers Play.
Climbing is not a homogeneous sport but rather a collection of differing (though related) activities, each with its own adepts, distinctive terrain, problems and satisfactions, and perhaps most important, its own rules. Therefore, I propose to consider climbing in general as a hierarchy of climbing games, each defined by a set of rules and an appropriate field of play. [2]
[1] http://alpenglow.org/themes/alpinism-as-humanism/index.html
[2] Games Climbers Play, republished in the Alpine Journal (1968) /library/2894/alpine-journal-1968-46-52-tejada-flores-games
| From | USA πΊπΈ |
| Ex-Resident | Bolivia π§π΄ |
| Gender | Male |
Bolivian-born US climber, skier, photographer and writer. Author of the seminal essay Games Climbers Play.
Climbing is not a homogeneous sport but rather a collection of differing (though related) activities, each with its own adepts, distinctive terrain, problems and satisfactions, and perhaps most important, its own rules. Therefore, I propose to consider climbing in general as a hierarchy of climbing games, each defined by a set of rules and an appropriate field of play. [2]
[1] http://alpenglow.org/themes/alpinism-as-humanism/index.html
[2] Games Climbers Play, republished in the Alpine Journal (1968) /library/2894/alpine-journal-1968-46-52-tejada-flores-games