Table of Contents

Foreword

Part One: Doctrine

1. The Mountain and Spirituality
2. Some Remarks Concerning the Divinity of the Mountains
3. Spirituality of the Mountain
4. A Mystic of the Tibetan Mountains
5. Race and the Mountain
6. The Mountain, Sport, and Contemplation
7. Ascending and Descending

Part Two: Experiences

8. The Northern Wall of Eastern Lyskamm
9. Notes Concerning Psychic Training in the Mountains
10. The Ascent of Mount Langkopfel
11. Ice and the Spirit
12. The Valley of the Wind
13. The Ascent of Mount Gross-Glockner
14. Meditations on the Peaks
15. A Storm on Mount Rosa

Part Three: Appendices

Appendix A. An Artist of the Heights: Nicholas Roerich
Appendix B. Art and Symbol in the Seat of the Snows
Appendix C. Religiosity of Tyrol
Appendix D. The Kingdom of the Demon of the Peaks
Appendix E. Height

Index

About the Author

Julius Evola (1898-1974) was one of the leading authorities on the world's esoteric traditions, and wrote extensively on ancient religions and hermeticism. Inner Traditions has also published his Revolt Against the Modern World, The Mystery of the Grail, The Hermetic Tradition, The Yoga of Power, The Doctrine of Awakening, and Eros and the Mysteries of Love.

Reviews

"Evola writes in lively prose, filled with fascinating and concrete detail...To read his descriptions of the higher spiritual states is like watching a champion mountain-climber on a vertical glacier."
*Joscelyn Godwin in Gnosis*

"[Evola's] engaging and poetic look at mountain climbing through the eyes of awareness creates an artistic dance of words and images. Feeling the landscape of both mind and matter, [he] brings deeper meaning to the struggles of everyday life."
*Meditation Pathways*