Introduction: Recuperating bodies, recovering texts -- "They all want to be Indiana Jones": travel literature and modernity -- No longer the lettered city: San Martín and the touristic imagination -- Indigenous identities: the mummy, the mountaineer, and re-ethnification -- Fashioning adventure: creating mountaineering in the 1980's -- Local heroics: militarisms and democratizations -- Matters of life and death: mountain guides, nation, and memorialization -- The dream weaver: performing gender, adventure, and mountaineering -- Plaza de Mulas: memory, musealization, and the global -- Conclusion: Final debriefs. |