Jonathan Westaway

Our friends in The Confluence Collective are doing amazing work with the community in Kalimpong. Find out more about our exhibition here shorturl.at/AqTlh

बाउको धुरी छैन Father Has No Roof Over His Head, 21-27 February, Industrial Park, Kalimpong.

#OtherEverests #Himalaya #Indigenous #HighAltWork

The restitution of dignity: Photography, resistance and her-stories in Maaza Mengiste’s The Shadow King’, in: Philosophy of Photography, 17.1 (2026) online first: doi.org/10.1386/pop_...

#maazamengiste #theshadowking #restitution #dignity #photography #resistance #herstories #literature

Pico de Orizaba (5 675 m asl, Mexico) yesterday! 🤩

What you see here is “Glaciar Norte” (~0.3 km²), Mexico's last glacier and the only one located at 19° N in the world!

In an extremely rapid withdrawal phase! 🧊🔥

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📷 Laura González del Castillo

CFP - Speculative Climates: Hauntings Of The Past Across The Humanities – EASLCE Considering the contemporary as a timespace haunted by crises rooted in the past, the workshop on Speculative Climates asks how the intricate mesh of

PhD students, check out this International Doctoral Workshop in Cologne, Germany, in November. Deadline: 30 April. #envhist #envhum

The promotional image features the book Science Fiction and the Modern World: The Emergence of a Genre in a Revolutionary Age with a brightly lit nineteenth-century exhibition hall on the cover. To the right, text describes the book’s argument about science fiction’s role in redefining humanity’s relationship to nature, with the Liverpool University Press logo.

Recently published in Liverpool Science Fiction Texts and Studies | Science Fiction and the Modern World explores nineteenth-century science fiction as recalibrating humanity’s understanding of its relationship to the natural order.

Find out more here:
bit.ly/SFATMW26

Book launch: 'Ocean, As Much As Rain: Stories, Lyrical Prose, and Poems from Tibet' By Tsering Woeser Date 11 March 2026 Time 5:15 pm to 6:30 pm Venue SOAS University of London Room Khalili Lecture Theatre (KLT) Speakers Jemimah Steinfeld is CEO of Index on Censorship. Fiona Sze-Lorrain is a writer, poet, translator, and the author of, most recently, Dear Chrysanthemums: A Novel in Stories. Dechen Pemba is the editor of High Peaks Pure Earth.

New event!
📆11th March
🕔5:15pm UK time

@hpeaks.bsky.social hold Book launch in London:
'Ocean, As Much As Rain: Stories, Lyrical Prose, and Poems from Tibet' by @woeser.bsky.social
& discussion w/ @jemimahsteinfeld.bsky.social, Fiona Sze-Lorrain & Dechen Pemba

Reg:
www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/...

Another gem in this new series. Check it out 👇

Mostly an imaginary Tibet refracted through the lens of Blavatsky and Theosophy. This 1981 production is contemporary with It Ain't Half Hot Mum and has a similar approach to Asian characters...

BBC Sounds - Lost Horizon by James Hilton - Available Episodes Listen to the latest episodes of Lost Horizon by James Hilton on BBC Sounds.

BBC are currently replaying their 1981 adaptation of James Hilton's Lost Horizon. #Orientalism on steroids with some very questionable accents.
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/serie...
Recommend @waymarks.bsky.social #OtherEverests chapter on Western escapism in the #Himalaya for context shorturl.at/Pchxp

New podcast talking with @peterhhansen.bsky.social about how #mountaineering & #modernity emerged together & how the idea of the 'summit position' came to encompass concepts of sovereignty & empire from the #Alps to #Everest
shorturl.at/oI5fh
@profpitches.bsky.social @mountainsofgreece.bsky.social

New podcast! Talking with @peterhhansen.bsky.social about how #mountaineering & #modernity emerged together & how the idea of the 'summit position' came to encompass concepts of sovereignty and empire from the #Alps to #Everest.
shorturl.at/oI5fh
@uio-oceh.bsky.social @carsoncenter.bsky.social

New podcast! Talking with @peterhhansen.bsky.social about how #mountaineering & #modernity emerged together & how the idea of the 'summit position' came to encompass concepts of sovereignty and empire from the #Alps to #Everest.
shorturl.at/oI5fh
@katie-r-ives.bsky.social @natalie-berry.com

New podcast! Talking with @peterhhansen.bsky.social about how #mountaineering & #modernity emerged together & how the idea of the 'summit position' came to encompass concepts of sovereignty and empire from the #Alps to #Everest.
shorturl.at/oI5fh
@ukclimbing.com @cmountainstudies.bsky.social

New podcast! Talking with @peterhhansen.bsky.social about how #mountaineering & #modernity emerged together & how the idea of the 'summit position' came to encompass concepts of sovereignty and empire from the #Alps to #Everest.
shorturl.at/oI5fh
@dollyjorgensen.bsky.social @greenhouseuis.net

New podcast! Talking with @peterhhansen.bsky.social about how #mountaineering & #modernity emerged together & how the idea of the 'summit position' came to encompass concepts of sovereignty and empire from the #Alps to #Everest.
shorturl.at/oI5fh
@waymarks.bsky.social @calmandfearless.bsky.social

I recommend this. Very, very sad, but with an interesting twist.

The Arrival of the Harmony These old photographs,  like ghost ships, seldom bring us what we want.

"Indigenous communities that had already suffered from epidemics of measles and chickenpox were largely abandoned to their fate by the settler colonial government of the Dominion of Newfoundland." @jonwestaway.bsky.social

niche-canada.org/2022/08/11/t...

#envhist #cdnhist #indigenoushistory

Summit Positions Jason König and Jonathan Westaway interview Peter Hansen about his research on the Alps and Himalayas.

New podcast! Talking with @peterhhansen.bsky.social sky.social about how #mountaineering & #modernity emerged together & how the idea of the 'summit position' came to encompass concepts of sovereignty and empire from the #Alps to #Everest shorturl.at/oI5fh #EnvHist #EnvHums
@nichecanada.bsky.social

New podcast! Talking with @peterhhansen.bsky.social
about how #mountaineering & #modernity emerged together & how the idea of the 'summit position' came to encompass concepts of sovereignty and empire from the #Alps to #Everest
shorturl.at/oI5fh
@profpitches.bsky.social @3leggedcat.bsky.social

IMAGE: Altels, Switzerland 1914. Memoriav Memobase.

IMAGE: Detail from Bird's Eye View from the Staircase & the Upper Part of the Pavilion in the Colosseum, Regent's Park (1829), a coloured aquatint by Rudolph Ackermann www.open.edu/openlearn/hi...

New podcast! Talking with @peterhhansen.bsky.social about how #mountaineering & #modernity emerged together & how the idea of the 'summit position' came to encompass concepts of sovereignty and empire from the #Alps to #Everest.
shorturl.at/oI5fh #EnvHist
@eseh.bsky.social @iceho.bsky.social

New podcast! Talking with @peterhhansen.bsky.social about how #mountaineering & #modernity emerged together & how the idea of the 'summit position' came to encompass concepts of sovereignty and empire from the #Alps to #Everest.
shorturl.at/oI5fh
@mtnresearchmri.bsky.social @mrdjournal.bsky.social

479 Auden and the Muse of History (with Susannah Young-ah Gottli… W.H. Auden (1907-1973) was one of the twentieth-century's greatest poets - and also one of the most engaged. As he struggled to make sense of the rise of fascism, t…

“All we are not stares back at what we are.”
– W. H. Auden, b. Feb. 21, 1907

In this episode from the archives: @jackewilson.bsky.social talks to Susannah Young-ah Gottlieb, about her book Auden and the Muse of History. #books #poetry #literature @stanfordpress.bsky.social

Our friends in The Confluence Collective are doing amazing work with the community in Kalimpong. Find out more about our exhibition here shorturl.at/AqTlh

बाउको धुरी छैन Father Has No Roof Over His Head, 21-27 February, Industrial Park, Kalimpong.

#OtherEverests #Himalaya #Indigenous #HighAltWork

This week sees the launch of an exciting new exhibition in West Bengal which draws on the Society’s historic Collections on Everest and the wider Himalayas. Find out more: https://www.rgs.org/about-us/our-work/latest-news/collections-feature-in-groundbreaking-exhibition

Book cover for my next book entitled "The Indian Revolutionary Movement in Europe, 1905-1918".

The final cover for my next book "The Indian Revolutionary Movement in Europe, 1905-1918: Exile, Internationalism, and Resistance to Empire" (Liverpool UP, Aug 2026).

Report: Immortality in the age of AI - LCFI A new report co-authored at the Leverhulme centre for the Future of Intelligence (CFI) summarises research activities in Poland, India and China that looked at “digital immortality”. Co-authored by CF...

🚨New publication: a report co-authored by Dr Katarzyna Nowaczyk-Basińska, and Dr Saide Mobayed Vega examines how cultural contexts shape public understanding, expectations, and concerns surrounding death and AI technologies.
www.lcfi.ac.uk/news-events/...

Been attempting to track down the #Arctic natural #history specimens donated to the Whitby #Museum by William Scoresby Jr using old catalogues and photos. I've finally found a photo of his long-lost "sea-horse heads"! I've never seen walrus stuffed in this way. Also note the Ichthyosaur at the back!

Austrian Climber Found Guilty for Leaving Girlfriend to Die During Winter Ascent The infamous Grossglockner case went to trial on February 19, when a surprise witness took the stand.

The infamous Grossglockner case went to trial on February 19, when a surprise witness took the stand.