Starting with climbers: How did mountaineering change from "asceticism" to middle-class fashion?

In fact, it cannot be said that mountaineering has changed from asceticism to ready-made middle-class fashion. It should be said that mountaineering is divided into ascetic and middle-class ways. Because ascetic mountaineering should be a very simple thing, that is to say, you can start with a bag on your back, but another branch of mountaineering has developed into a sport. This sport began to appear in the19th century, and became more and more systematic with the development of the times.

When a sport is systematized, relatively speaking, the more professional and detailed the preparation work it needs. This has led to more and more mountaineering equipment, and only people above the middle class can take mountaineering as a daily exercise. There are several reasons why mountaineering has become the fashion of the middle class.

The reason for 1 is that the attention paid to mountaineering is not the same as before. Now is the network society, more and more multimedia or companies have done some publicity on mountaineering in order to achieve certain results, which makes everyone pay attention to mountaineering. The second reason is that people are rich and mountaineering was not popular before. First of all, at that time, not many people could take mountaineering as their daily exercise. After all, this is a relatively expensive exercise.

However, with the development of society, mountaineering is becoming more and more popular, which leads to an increase in the number of people interested in and involved in this area. Driven by these people, mountaineering has become a trend. The third reason is that mountaineering is a very challenging sport for some enterprises, especially young enterprises. Every time a challenge is completed, there will be a sense of satisfaction, which may not be produced by other sports.