The GeoLUCA geodatabase, with 50,000 km2 of land cover maps (6 European countries) from 1850 to 2022, efficiently showed the nonlinearity of past land-use/cover change across the Alps
Post-war aerial imagery of the Austrian Alps from 1945 for quantifying glacier changes
Historical aerial imagery from the US Airforce acquired in 1945 is used to determine glacier changes in the Austrian Alps.
Indigenous Perspectives on a Traditional Cultural Landscape: incorporating oral histories, landscapes and archaeological data at the Wiggins Fork Buffalo Jumps Complex.
Bringing together tribal members and archaeologists, to explore a culturally significant landscape to tell the history of the area through both scientific data and oral traditions.
The Lost Mountain Heritage: Investigating Environmental Stewardship in Mountaineer’s Narratives Trough Archival and Visual Ethnography
Scrutinizing environmental stewardship among early and young generation of mountaineers, historical investigation from 1922-2022
Catharine Whyte’s Big Ski Adventure: Art, Writing, and Travel Stories of the Rockies and the Alps
Art, writing, and travel stories of American-born Catharine Robb Whyte reconstruct a lifelong fascination with mountain adventures in Canada and Europe that reveal her place in the world of skiing.
Mountain toponymy as heritage, The example of the summit of the Lebanon
How did the Black Corner, an apparently banal oronym, become the Martyrs’ Peak and a cornerstone in the Maronite holy landscape of Lebanon?
Echoes of the Forgotten: Resilience of Isolated Mountain Communities
This documentary captures the untold stories of mountain communities, exploring their resilience and cultural identity in the face of historical silence.
Women’s Ski Jumping: Stories of Tensions, Advocacy, and International Echos in the Mountains
This paper contributes to a growing literature on women in ski jumping and highlights the importance of international voices who fought for change in mountain sports.
Forest-line dynamics in the French Northern Alps since 1860: a substantial upward shift, recently limited by human activities?
By comparing historical and current land-use maps, we showed the forest line rose by 166 m between 1951 and 1995, before its recent limitation by contemporary pastoral and tourism pressures.
Precious Ice. Commercial Ice Harvesting on the Grindelwald Glaciers
This contribution explores how the ice harvest on the Grindelwald Glaciers took place as well as what visible traces were left by the harvesting and transportation of the ice.