20.500.12556/RUL-184140 Between heaven and hell constraint, rivalry, and the making of Yugoslav alpine excellence in the Cold War Yugoslav alpinism developed during the Cold War through an asymmetry of access that defined the southeastern Alpine space. While Yugoslav climbers faced persistent administrative and financial barriers to the Western Alps, the Julian Alps remained politically and materially reachable for climbers from Czechoslovakia, the German Democratic Republic, and Poland, who could not readily reach the Western ranges either. This asymmetry concentrated elite activity from across the socialist world onto a narrow, technically demanding terrain, producing sustained transnational comparison and competitive pressure that accelerated the advancement of elite performance. Particular attention is given to the winter ascent of the Čop Pillar on the north face of Triglav in 1968, interpreted not as an isolated achievement but as the culmination of a prolonged competitive process and a decisive threshold in the evolution of Yugoslav alpinism. Structural asymmetry, neither closure nor openness, can function as a generative configuration under which elite performance emerges. Rather than treating constraint as limitation, the asymmetrical access redistributed opportunity, concentrating climbers within a shared alpine space where sustained comparison and rivalry accelerated technical development. Cold War Yugoslavia alpinism mountaineering socialist sport hladna vojna Jugoslavija alpinizem planinstvo socializem true false true Angleški jezik Slovenski jezik Članek v reviji 2026-06-30 14:53:15 2026-06-30 14:53:16 2026-09-29 09:00:53 0000-00-00 00:00:00 2026 0 0 Str. 713-732 no. 6 Vol. 43 2026 0000-00-00 Zaloznikova Objavljeno NiDoloceno 0000-00-00 0000-00-00 0000-00-00 796.966 1743-9035 10.1080/09523367.2026.2667286 279899907 Between_Heaven_and_Hell__Constraint__Rivalry__and_the_Making_of_Yugoslav_Alpine_Excellence_in_the_Cold_War.pdf Between_Heaven_and_Hell__Constraint__Rivalry__and_the_Making_of_Yugoslav_Alpine_Excellence_in_the_Cold_War.pdf 1 27CBADD4BEE5284CD1A532B6F771610F 72181998f3ab2b71488c812a0d32acb5e57e4a4b725eaf98ecb99d7b2e529fcf 36911450-bb4b-11f1-8bc5-0050569b8976 https://repozitorij.uni-lj.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=249155 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09523367.2026.2667286 0 c8f336b0-7482-11f1-9b0d-0050569b8976 https://repozitorij.uni-lj.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=236660 Filozofska fakulteta 0 0 0