Mountaineering Researchers Request Your Help to Complete a Short Online Survey

Hello Mountain Project Community!

I am part of a research team at Columbia University and INSEAD that is studying mountaineering processes and outcomes and we would like to invite experienced climbers to complete a short online survey to help with our research.

We would very much appreciate it if you would take a few minutes to help with this important research by completing this survey: Complete Survey Here

Additionally, we welcome your help in distributing the survey link to other experienced climbers. We rely on the help of generous and experienced climbers to conduct this research.

The first page of the survey has several open-ended questions followed by multiple choice questions on the subsequent pages related to climbing processes and outcomes.

In appreciation of your support, we are happy to provide you with a summary of our research findings at the conclusion of this project.

This research is being conducted in collaboration with Adam Galinsky (Professor at Columbia University) and Roderick Swaab (Professor at INSEAD). If you have any questions, please reply to this email and I will answer your questions as quickly as possible.

We greatly appreciate your willingness to help advance our understanding of mountaineering processes.

Sincerely,
Eric Anicich

Good survey, interested to hear the results. My only suggestion would be in the multiple choice section on egalitarian team dynamic, I think it would be helpful to indicate about how many team members were on the team, as well as their previous relationship. A egalitarian team of 9 on Everest without ever climbing together as a unit before would be much different than an egalitarian team of 4 or 5 attempting Annapurna. Both of these situations would warrant very different answers in my opinion, yet the way the question is worded both of these situations would fall under the criteria you describe in the survey.

Thank you for this feedback. It is very helpful! I also appreciate you taking the time to complete the survey.

Thank you to those of you who have completed the survey. We are still in need of more respondents so we would greatly appreciate it if you could pass along our survey link to other experienced climbers. Your help is invaluable to our research!