Introduction.- Part 1 Framing Mountains/Megastructures.- Chapter One: Border versus Boundary: The Holy Mountain and the Inhabitation of its Periphery.- Chapter Two: From Picturesque Detachment to Bodily Engagement; the Entwined Histories of Photography, Architecture and Mountaineering.- Chapter Three: House-building in the Alps with Ruskin Tyndall or CZOgraphy: an eco-criticism for the Critical Zone.- Chapter Four: Bachelard's Phenomenology and Verticality.- Chapter Five: Chthonic Countermeasures: a geological conte.- Part 2 Mountains.- Chapter Six: Everest Death Zone.- Chapter Seven: The Making and Unmaking of Kunanyi.- Chapter Eight: Lost on the edges of empire: John Stapylton Grey Pemberton's expedition to Darjeeling and the "snowy ranges".- Chapter Nine: Conquering Dragons.- Part 3 Megastructures.- Chapter Ten: Artificial Mountains.- Chapter Eleven: Terremoto in Palazzo.- Chapter Twelve: How Old Is the Barcelona Pavilion?.- Chapter Thirteen: 'Crowding the Stoop'. Climbing the Mega-Structures of Science Fiction.- Chapter Fifteen: Verticalities of the Imagination. Futurity and the Contemporary in Urban Science Fiction.- Chapter Sixteen: A Megastructure and a Mountain. Two Ways of Thinking about Architecture Culture.- Chapter Seventeen: Mount Fuji VS The Megastructures of Tokyo.