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Abstract. In 1913, the Thirteenth Dalai Lama of Tibet dispatched a lavish diplomatic gift to the viceroy of India. However, upon its arrival the colonial a

A lone glaciologist performs spiritual and scientific rituals to assess humanity’s impact in Bhutan’s sacred mountains

Seeley, Joseph. Border of Water and Ice: The Yalu River and Japan's Empire in Korea and Manchuria. : Cornell University Press, 2024. 210 pp. $23.95 (paper), ISBN 9781501777387. Reviewed by Tim Chamber...

There have been many books about Sherpa mountaineers over the years, but few have been written from the perspective of Sherpas themselves. One that comes close is Sherpa by Pradeep Bashyal and Anki…

Despite the extraordinary feats of Tabei and many other adventurous women, sexism and misogyny in mountaineering have persisted for decades.

*First broadcast on July 18, 2024. Scholar Minakata Kumagusu made contributions to biology, folklore and other fields. He laid the foundation for environmental conservation in Japan. We explore the en...

Explore the wealth of content available within The Linnean Society of London's website.

High Peaks Pure Earth for the first time presents a Spring Tibet Reading List! This is the first Tibet Reading List to follow up the (end of) Summer 2024 Tibet Reading List and includes over 25 mor…

In both William Cecil Slingsby’s Norway. The Northern Playground (1904) and Elizabeth Le Blond’s Mountaineering in the Land of the Midnight Sun (1908), Norway is presented as an alternative destina...

Alix Christie interviews Andrea Barrett about “Dust and Light: On the Art of Fact in Fiction.”

Imagining Explorers: From National Narratives to Public History, Explorers and Exploration in the Public Realm (edited collection)

Everest through the lens is back. Explore how John Noel's films shaped the public's imagination of Everest, and obscured the role of local intermediaries.

Vittorio Sella's work shaped both mountain photography and mountaineering history.

New book reveals that Pacific islands inhabitants helped European scientists identify hundreds of plant species In 1769, nearly nine months after setting sail with Capt James Cook on his first voyage to the Pacific, Joseph Banks and Daniel Solander…

Tsering Shakya comments on cultural imperialism and China's push to rename Tibet and replace it with "Xizang".

Other Everests edited by Gilchrest et al (2024) For books about mountaineering on Everest, the predominant focus is on climbers telling their personal climbing stories, or a climber or historian lo…

Released in late 2024, 100 years after the most infamous mountaineering event in history, Other Everests: one mountain, many worlds is not a retelling of the Mallory expedition, but rather an attem…

The Treasury of Lives is a biographical encyclopedia of Tibet, Inner Asia, and the Himalaya. Most biographies are peer reviewed.

Other Everests edited by Gilchrest et al (2024) For books about mountaineering on Everest, the predominant focus is on climbers telling their personal climbing stories, or a climber or historian lo…

The region is becoming a theme park for the Chinese nation.

Beset by colonial controversy, difficult finances and the discovery of a thief on the inside, Britain’s most visited museum is in deep trouble. Can it restore its reputation?