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espanolEn las novelas “Der fliegende Berg” (2006) de Christoph Ransmayr y “Das grosere Wunder” (2013) de Thomas Glavinic, se enfrentan dos ideas radicales en torno al alpinismo. Jonas, el protagonista de Glavinic, participa en una expedicion comercial para encumbrar la cima del monte mas alto del mundo. Esta clase de proyectos comerciales tan fuertemente criticados se presenta en total oposicion a lo representado en la novela de Ransmayr, en la que los hermanos Patrick y Liam se embarcan en un viaje personal a una montana mitica – el ultimo monte del Himalaya que nadie habia logrado subir. La extravagancia deportiva y comercial y la aventura totalmente independiente representan los dos extremos de una practica que tiene como objetivo la produccion de enfrentamientos intensamente fisicos con la naturaleza. Las dos novelas confrontan la posibilidad de estos enfrentamientos con relatos de las vidas de sus protagonistas en un mundo completamente moderno. Ajustando las biografias con la subida a las montanas correspondientes, los relatos se presentan como mediaciones entre escalas personales y planetarios. El clima, por lo tanto, no solo esta presente como un obstaculo a superar, sino como un recurso narrativo que negocia las relaciones cada vez mas precarias entre humanos y naturaleza. Comparados con relatos alpinistas de no-ficcion, estas narraciones revelan una concepcion del clima que no se circunscribe unicamente en una mera “concepcion de la atmosfera siempre afectada por el tiempo/clima” (Fleming/Jankovic 2). En su lugar, renuevan percepciones aparentemente rechazadas del clima como entidad local y corporal. Usando el concepto de “Klima” desarrollado por Fleming/Jankovic—una nocion del clima combinando hechos naturales y culturales—este articulo investiga los aspectos metodologicos y narrativos de la escalada, la aclimatacion y la alta montana para sacar a la luz el mito que subyace estos relatos climatologicos, ademas de mostrar sus (posibles) efectos productivos y destructivos en discursos contemporaneos sobre las relaciones entre humanos y naturaleza en el Antropoceno. EnglishChristoph Ransmayr’s 2006 novel “Der fliegende Berg” and Thomas Glavinic’s “Das grosere Wunder” (published in 2013) confront very different ideas of mountaineering. Glavinic’s protagonist Jonas joins a commercial expedition to summit the world’s highest mountain. These highly criticized commercial endeavors are in contrast to Ransmayr’s scenario in which two brothers, Patrick and Liam, embark on a journey to a mythical peak—the only Himalayan mountain yet to be summited. The commercial sporting extravaganza and the ultimate independent adventure represent two extremes of a practice aimed at producing intense physical encounters with nature. Both novels confront the possibility of such encounters with an account of the life of their protagonists within a thoroughly modern world. In aligning biography with the ascent of the respective peak, the narratives present themselves as mediations between personal and planetary scales. Climate, thus, is present not only as an obstacle to overcome, but as a narrative device negotiating increasingly precarious relationships between humans and nature. In comparison with non-fictional mountaineering accounts, these narratives reveal an understanding of climate which is not exhausted in a “weather-biased understanding of the atmosphere” (Fleming/Jankovic 2). Instead, they resurrect apparently discarded notions of climate as a local and bodily entity. Using Fleming/Jankovic’s concept of “Klima”—an understanding of climate which combines natural and cultural facts—this paper investigates the methodological and narrative aspects of scaling, acclimatization and high-altitude in order to unearth the myth underlying these climatological tales and their (possibly) productive and destructive effects on current discourses on human-nature-relationships in the Anthropocene.

Scaling High Places. Mountaineering Narratives as Climatological Tales