In recent winters, drought reduced SWE in the Italian Alps by 60%, causing water crises in the Po River. CIMA launched a campaign, supported by S3M Italy & IT-SNOW, to raise awareness of snow sc
Expanding Intercultural Competence: Studying Abroad and the Power of Mountain Connections
This presentation will examine mountains as a pedagogical site for fostering intercultural learning among domestic and international students.
Mountain microadventures: A tool to build place attachment and more sustainable travel
This session explores how the use of microadventures in a university course can enhance sustainable adventure tourism education.
Thomas Fearnley and the Frozen Giant. “The Grindelwald Glacier” (1838) as witness to climate change.
The paper will discuss Thomas Fearnley’s The Grindelwald Glacier (1838) as artistic composition and witness to the Little Ice age in dialogue with the discourse on climate change.
Searching for best practice: Gender, diversity and inclusion at bouldering festivals
This talk examines two events that can be seen as models of “best practice” in bouldering festivals that focus on creating safe spaces for marginalized individuals and groups
Go to the Tibetan Plateau and stay there: who and when?
Repeatedly occupied sites are crucial to understanding the initial colonization and subsequent permanent occupation of the Tibetan Plateau.
Indigenous festival in the Biosphere Reserve Laguna Blanca, Argentinian Andes: Encountering extractivist logic, fragmented resistance, and the conflictive “cosmopolitical” arena
Drawing on the ethnographic and spatial methodologies, we focus on the indigenous communities’ resistance, and its slow fragmentation, to a mining project expressed though an indigenous festival.
The International Festival of Mountaineering Literature 1987-2008, UK
It featured new books and commissioned new writing, always including women writers, poetry, music and song, curated as a conversation with the audience.
Role of culture in promoting mountain tourism: A study of Darjeeling Hills
Film director Anurag Basu addressed Darjeeling Tea and Tourism Festival one of the main festivals Himalayan region attracts tourists from state inter state part of colorful celebration in mountain
Manimahesh Yatra: A century old tradition for preserving indigenous culture and sustainable community tourism in Pir Panjal Range of Greater Himalaya in Himachal Pradesh, India
Accessed the official website of Chamba District of the government of Himachal Pradesh, India, and some published research papers are available online for preparing the paper.