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Aesthetics of Risk: Culture or Context

  • Thompson M
Springer US, (1980), 273-285
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4899-0445-4_13
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Abstract

High standard Himalayan climbing is, quite probably, the riskiest business there is: the chances of being killed are around 1 in 8 or 1 in 10 per expedition. So Himalayan mountaineering provides an ideal (if dangerous) laboratory for the investigation of how and why...

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Thompson, M. (1980). Aesthetics of Risk: Culture or Context. In Societal Risk Assessment (pp. 273–285). Springer US. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-0445-4_13

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