Includes bibliographical references (p. [229]-245) and index
Tourists, climbers, and the sublime -- Sinking the sublime -- Spectators, telescopes, and spectacle -- Ladies on high -- Literary figures in the Alps -- John Ruskin: climbing and the vulnerable eye -- Toothpaste and beadcrumbs: Gerard Manley Hopkins in the Alps -- Snowbound with Robert Louis Stevenson -- Coda -- The Himalaya and the persistence of the sublime.