| Summary/Abstract |
This article describes the manner in which advocates of mountain climbing in the Himalayas used commercialization to expand the number of persons engaged in the activity, to cut cost, and to reduce risk. To the extent that climbing into the “death zone” of mountains, like Mount Everest, constitutes an analogy to space exploration, the article suggests that advocates of spaceflight travel may be poised at the end of an expeditionary period similar to the one that afflicted mountain climbers before they made the transition to the commercial era.
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