Dhar 1 Dhar, Amrita. “Travel and Mountains.” The Cambridge History of Travel Writing. Ed. Nandini Das and Tim Youngs. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. 345-60. Print. Travel and Mountains Amrita Dhar Human attainment of the highest summit of our planet came after centuries of regarding mountains as desolate and forbidding locations, with whole cultures attributing to them danger, or divinity, or both. In the mid-twentieth century, the momentum of several decades of mountaineering energy came together with technology, strategy, and international relations to make human presence possible at the top of the mountain called Chomolungma (in Tibet), Sagarmatha (in Nepal), and Everest (elsewhere). Summiteer Tenzing Norgay later recalled the view from the summit: Around us on every side, were the great Himalayas, stretching away through Nepal and Tibet. For the closer peaks […] you now had to look sharply downward to see their summits. And, farther away, the whole sweep of the greatest range on earth—even Kangchenjunga itself—seemed only like little bumps under the spreading sky. It was such a sight as I had never seen before and would never see again—wild, wonderful, terrible. But terror was not what I felt. I loved the mountains too well for that. I loved