The objectives in which the construction of the present article were based lead, from a side, to identify some social representations present in the mountaineering universe and, on the other, to understand the form like the same representations, in the struggle and the competition contribute to the construction of social reality in this delimited empirical universe. For the development of this proposal it was sough metodological support in the reflexive sociology of Pierre Bourdieu, especially in his acquired and explicated form in the construction of the social representations theory, of the economy of the symbolic goods and of the profits of distinction in the sporting field. Finally, it was still nourished in the empirical considerations woven by the mountaineer and writer Jon Krakauer in his best seller "On men and mountains".
Social representations; Mountaineering; Sociology; Pierre Bourdieu