New podcast! We talk to historian of science @lachlanfleetwood.bsky.social about early 19th C. imperial science in the #Himalaya & the emergence of a 'vertically oriented view of the world' where altitude comes to define mountains #HistSci #EnvHist
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@peterhhansen.bsky.social
11.02.2026 17:16 — 👍 17 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 0
Happy Science Friday! Here’s what we’re covering today on the show. Listen on your local public radio station, 2-4 p.m. ET. ⛷️ 🐐 ⭐️ 🧑💻
📸 : Kevin White
Learn more here: buff.ly/8RIIRNG
06.02.2026 17:30 — 👍 45 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 1
Olympic Ski Mountaineering, And Mountain Goat Climbing Feats
The mountaineering history behind "skimo," a new Winter Olympic event. Plus, research into a true alpine champion, the mountain goat.
Are goats the GOAT of mountaineering?🏔️🐐
Host Flora Lichtman learns about climbing snowy mountains as “skimo,” aka ski mountaineering, ⛷️ makes its debut as a Winter Olympic event. Plus, a wildlife ecologist talks about the gravity-defying skills of mountain goats. buff.ly/4QwuKnV
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बाउ को धुरी छैन “Father Has No Roof over his head”
An #OtherEverests #ConfluenceCollective exhibition in Kalimpong 21-27 February 2026 shorturl.at/YrbVv
Lost archives & hidden histories of Indigenous high-altitude workers from the 1920s & 1930s.
@peterhhansen.bsky.social @calmandfearless.bsky.social
04.02.2026 12:29 — 👍 3 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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BBC Journalist and Author of 'SHERPA'
Jason König / Professor of Classics, University of St Andrews / https://mountainsofgreece.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/ / Literary and archaeological heritage of the mountains of Greece / 21st-century challenges for mountain landscapes and communities
Historian // Assistant Prof. at Cumberland University / PhD @Vanderbilt.edu / historian of exploration and travelers in Africa, #histSTM, geography, and the British Empire 🗃️ // Texan and Chicano // currently: drowning in grading 🫠😓
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Books: Is A River Alive? (May ‘25), Underland, The Lost Words, The Old Ways etc | Films: River, Mountain, Upstream | Music: The Moon Also Rises, Lost In The Cedar Wood, etc
Nature, climate, people.
Prof at Cambridge.
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Cultural and environmental historian of Canada and the Sub/Arctic. Author: *A Cold Colonialism: Modern Exploration and the Canadian North.* Co-editor: *Made Modern: Science and Technology in Canadian History.* Now researching energy and queer histories 🛢️🌈
Historian of Antarctica
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Theatre Professor and eco critic. Author of Performing Mountains. Head of School of Performance and Cultural Industries at University of Leeds. European. Trying my hand at some poetry. Views my own.
Historian of empire, travel and modernity in the Arctic. DurhamARCTIC PhD. He could never help reading about cricket. He/him. Personal academic website: https://www.christiandrury.co.uk/
Historian, interested in Exploration & Empire. PhD from Birkbeck College, University of London. FRGS. https://tim-chamberlain.owlstown.net/
Historian of exploration, extreme environments, material culture + outdoor gear, fashion. Hist. sci & med PhD, editor ar Endeavour, freelance writer. I unpack packing. She/her. www.sarahmpickman.com
Cultural and environmental historian/geographer. Mountain and polar regions. Cryohistories. Indigenous knowledge. Island Studies.
PL AHRC 'Other Everests' network.
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An academic organization devoted to the study of Nepal and wider Himalaya–Tibet, Sikkim, Ladakh, Bhutan. Publisher of Himalaya, an open-access, peer-reviewed journal. Provider of grants & prizes for students and scholars. https://anhs-himalaya.org
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