Chapter1. Global Mountain Awareness
Chapter2. An International Mountain Involvement: The Beginnings
Chapter3. Mountain Strategy in Munich, 1974: On Track to the Himalaya
Chapter4. Darjeeling: Personal Awakening to High Mountains and Refugees
Chapter5. Moscow and the Caucasus: The IGU in the Cold War
Chapter6. United Nations University: Agency with a Mountain Mission
Chapter7. Himalayan Reconnaissance 1978: Deforestation, Landslides, and Farmers
Chapter8. The China Connection: Privileged Entry to a Closed Country
Chapter9. Beyond Lhasa: Opening China to Collaborative Mountain Research
Chapter10. Breakthrough: Environmental Degradation Theory Overturned
Chapter11. China Revisited 1985: Yunnan and the Jade Dragon Snow Mountains
Chapter12. The Mohonk Process: Mobilization of the Mountain Advocates
Chapter13. Mountain Road to Rio: The UN Earth Summit 1992
Chapter14. Return to China 1991–1996: Mountain People of Yunnan and Mass Tourism
Chapter15. Roof of the World: The Pamir, 1999: “A Catastrophe of Biblical Proportions”
Chapter16. Threatened Disasters in the Pamir and Himalaya
Chapter17. The Evolution of the Mountain Cause. .