Dominance of Anthropocentrism in Chris Bonington’s Ascent

Abstract

Chris Bonington,in hisautobiographyAscentpublished in 2017backgroundsthe bio-centric worldview because of his anthropocentricupbringing.He happens to take anthropocentric actions from his childhoodto the peak of his career as a renowned climber.His anthropocentric visiontonature creates polaritiesamongthem.This vision captures thenotion ofsuperiority and inferiority between human being and nature.In patriarchalsociety,maledominatesfemalein different sectorslikewise human being also dominate nature. We can take nature and women as sameobject wherementreat according to their wish. AsVal Plumwood andCheryll Glofelty claim, this research comes to the conclusionthathuman centeredness leadsus towards the path of destruction of global ecology.Bonington in his autobiography maintains the anthropocentric viewpoint rather than deconstructing it.Readershave to dig outbio-centric worldviewfrom the cracks and silence as if the absent of bio- centrism advocates the values of bio-centrism itself. The negation of bio-centric worldview in Bonington’sAscentitself critiques the overstatements of anthropocentric worldview.Whenever he is in painand suffocation, he is compelled to escape from anthropocentric world and goes to nature for healing.However,he fails to foreground bio-centric values in his bulky bookAscent.