| 英文摘要 |
This research aims to reveal the meaning of mountaineering by adopting “passing” as a metaphor in different levels. First, it examines the definition of “rites of passage” and its application in sport fields. Second, “climbing up” indicates the movement from social environment to natural space. Moreover, climbers’ identities have shifted from civilization to wildness through this spatial change. In this stage, a break of dualistic frame of nature and society helps us to mount into next level. Third, mountaineering is an embodied practice. Climbers encounter the Nature through a slow and long process. Therefore, “gazing afar” leads us to discover the beautiful and sublime in Nature. However, climbers do not recognize the sublime in natural objects, but also in their own subjectivity. Combining the sublime with one’s morality, people get to reflect the relationship between human being and Nature as “I-thou” instead of “I-it”. Thus, a deeper ecological ethic would be desired in a world consisted of “flesh”. |
