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Call for Papers – Towards a Posthumanistic Mountain Humanities
Submission: Please send abstracts to mountainstories@st-andrews.ac.uk, copied to the three convenors: Jonathan Westaway, University of Lancashire, jwestaway@lancashire.ac.uk; Jason König, University of St. Andrews, jpk3@st-andrews.ac.uk; Jonathan Pitches, University of Leeds, j.pitches@leeds.ac.uk As part of the ‘Mountain stories, mountain futures: exploring new directions for the Mountain Humanities’ project, funded by the UK British Academy-Leverhulme Small Grants scheme (August 2026-July...
New Podcast - Mountain Stories, Mountain Futures
In this episode, Jason König and Jonathan Westaway interview Alexandra Cotofana about her work on the mountains of Romania. Alexandra is a cultural anthropologist and Assistant Professor at Zayed University in Abu Dhabi. She is the author of Xenophobic Mountains. Landscape sentience reconsidered in the Romanian Carpathians, (2022), and co-editor of Sentient Ecologies: Xenophobic Imaginaries of Landscape (2022).
ARTICLE: Other Everests - One Mountain, Many Worlds - Book Extract
Many Nations Ascents of Mount Everest were considered matters of national importance during imperial, postcolonial, and Cold War eras throughout most of the twentieth century. Access to Everest was transformed by the independence of India in 1947, communist revolution in China and the invasion of Tibet, and by the opening of Nepal to visitors in 1950.
Another Land Made of Water: Anthropocene Islands and Ecological Apocalypse in the Orcadian Folklore of Walter Traill Dennison
Editor’s Note: This is the fourth post in the Ghost Light: Folkloric NonHumanity on the Environmental Stage series edited by Caroline CE Abbott. The series aims to illuminate the relationships between non-human, or other-than-human beings, folklore, and the environmental humanities and to encourage intersectional conversation. Shortly before his death in 1894, Orcadian folklorist Walter Traill Dennison’s writings became overburdened with the world-ending power of the sea.
The Arrival of the Harmony
Editor’s Note: This is the second post in the Visual Cultures of the Circumpolar North series. A photograph. A cold and harsh place. The Moravian Church Mission ship the Harmony somewhere on the Labrador coast. Ice hardens the earth between the mission buildings. The date is 1907.
The Orkney Finnmen Legends: From Early Modern Science to Modern Myth
Map of Orkney featured in Description of the Islands of Orkney and Zetland ( 1711) published by Sir Robert Sibbald — Source. Published in Edinburgh in 1693, A Description of the Isles of Orkney by the Rev. James Wallace of Kirkwall, Orkney, contains the first known mention in print of the term “Finnmen”, although what the text meant by the term Finnmen was unclear.
(PDF) The Inuit discovery of Europe? The Orkney Finnmen, preternatural objects and the re- enchantment of early-modern science
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The Inuit discovery of Europe? The Orkney Finnmen, preternatural objects and the re-enchantment of early-modern science
Between 1693 and 1701 three books were published in Edinburgh and London that have been cited as evidence of sightings of Inuit people fishing in boats off the coasts of Orkney. These three texts have by-and-large been taken at face value, with scholars, antiquarians and folklorists seeking to determine how the Inuit could have got to Orkney, not whether the texts in question bear the weight of this interpretation.
(DOC) CFP RGS-IBG 2020 Conference - Everest as a Space of Exception: Globalization, bordering and adventure
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Commentary: 11 Everest climbers dead in 16 days - how to recover dead bodies from the world’s tallest mountain
PRESTON: Climbing Mount Everest has long been a metaphor for extreme achievement – something that is both hard and hazardous. And, over the years, the bodies of those seasoned Sherpas who perished in accidents or climbers who succumbed to the cold and altitude have testified to just how dangerous it is to attempt to climb to the 8,848m summit. Advertisement Advertisement But recent overcrowding has led to a spate of “blue sky” deaths on the mountain.
Mt Everest tragedy: As 11 climbers die in six days, problem of mortal remains on mountain looms
World The Conversation Jun 17, 2019 07:41:13 IST By Jonathan Westaway Climbing Mount Everest has long been a metaphor for extreme achievement – something that is both hard and hazardous. And, over the years, the bodies of those seasoned Sherpas who perished in accidents or climbers who succumbed to the cold and altitude have testified to just how dangerous it is to attempt to climb to the 8,848-metre summit. File image of Mount Everest.
11 Deaths in 16 Days: How to Deal With Bodies on Everest?
11 Deaths in 16 Days: How to Deal With Bodies on Everest? SHARE, SAVE, COMMENT How can it be ensured that these and past human remains on Everest are treated with dignity and respect? (Photo: Rhythum Seth/ The Quint) Climbing Mount Everest has long been a metaphor for extreme achievement – something that is both hard and hazardous.
Everest: 11 climbers dead in 16 days - how should we deal with the bodies on the mountain?
Climbing Mount Everest has long been a metaphor for extreme achievement – something that is both hard and hazardous. And, over the years, the bodies of those seasoned Sherpas who perished in accidents or climbers who succumbed to the cold and altitude have testified to just how dangerous it is to attempt to climb to the 8,848-metre summit. But recent overcrowding has led to a spate of “blue sky” deaths on the mountain.
Everest: 11 climbers dead in 16 days - how should we deal with the bodies on the mountain?
Climbing Mount Everest has long been a metaphor for extreme achievement – something that is both hard and hazardous. And, over the years, the bodies of those seasoned Sherpas who perished in accidents or climbers who succumbed to the cold and altitude have testified to just how dangerous it is to attempt to climb to the 8,848-metre summit. But recent overcrowding has led to a spate of “blue sky” deaths on the mountain.
How German climbers conquered the Himalayas
Germany launched its first post-war Himalayan mountaineering expedition to Kanchenjunga – the world’s third-highest mountain – in 1929 under the leadership of the celebrated mountaineer Paul Bauer. Its goals were explicitly nationalistic, motivated by a desire to rebuild a faith in German manhood and to finally leave behind the defeat and humiliation experienced in World War I.
Mountain of destiny: exhibition captures a unique moment in German Himalayan mountaineering
Germany launched its first post-war Himalayan mountaineering expedition to Kanchenjunga – the world’s third-highest mountain – in 1929 under the leadership of the celebrated mountaineer Paul Bauer. Its goals were explicitly nationalistic, motivated by a desire to rebuild a faith in German manhood and to finally leave behind the defeat and humiliation experienced in World War I.
New Footage Reveals the British Empire’s Hidden Workings in India and Iran
In a basement office at the j in London’s South Kensington, grainy 16mm film footage flickers silently across the screen, one of over a hundred expeditionary and travel films digitized recently by the society and the British Film Institute. They are now free to watch on the BFI website. The collection ranges from professional expedition documentaries to home movies and amateur documentary footage. Some films, such as The Conquest of Everest (1953) are well known.
Secret film footage uncovered: When British Indian troops met the Red Army in Iran
In a basement office at the Royal Geographical Society in London’s South Kensington, grainy 16mm film footage flickers silently across the screen, one of over a hundred expeditionary and travel films digitised recently by the society and the British Film Institute (BFI). They are now free to watch on the BFI website. The collection ranges from professional expedition documentaries to home movies and amateur documentary footage. Some films, such as The Conquest of Everest (1953) are well known.
British Empire’s hidden workings in India and Iran revealed in remarkable new film footage
Feb 06, 2018 · 08:30 pm Jonathan Westaway, The Conversation Share Tweet Email Reddit Print Share Tweet Email Reddit Print In a basement office at the Royal Geographical Society in London’s South Kensington, grainy 16mm film footage flickers silently across the screen, one of over a hundred expeditionary and travel films digitised recently by the society and the British Film Institute. They are now free to watch on the BFI website.
British Empire's hidden workings in India and Iran revealed in remarkable new film footage
In a basement office at the Royal Geographical Society in London’s South Kensington, grainy 16mm film footage flickers silently across the screen, one of over a hundred expeditionary and travel films digitised recently by the society and the British Film Institute. They are now free to watch on the BFI website. The collection ranges from professional expedition documentaries to home movies and amateur documentary footage. Some films, such as The Conquest of Everest (1953) are well known.
Summits, uphill struggles ... and what a murky tale of mountaineering derring-do can teach us about Brexit
At the start of the recent Brexit negotiations, UK Brexit secretary David Davis and EU chief negotiator Michel Barnier exchanged “mountaineering gifts”. Barnier gave Davis a carved wooden walking stick from his native Savoie while Davis presented Barnier with a French version of the classic mountaineering book, Regards vers l'Annapurna, by Maurice Herzog and Marcel Ichac. But beyond a shared love of the outdoors, what do these gifts signify?
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