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Jonathan Westaway
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Cultural and environmental historian/geographer. Mountain and polar regions. Cryohistories. Indigenous knowledge. Island Studies.

PL AHRC 'Other Everests' network.
uclan.academia.edu/JonathanWestaway
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Nepali herders are being harassed, and have even been beaten in some cases, by Chinese troops on the Tibetan side of the border despite a 2012 bilateral deal allowing seasonal grazing of herds within 30 km on each other’s sides.
#Nepal
www.tibetanreview.net/chinese-troo...
Chinese troops harass, beat Nepal’s livestock farmers despite 2012 border grazing deal - Tibetan Review
(TibetanReview.net, Feb07’26) – Nepal’s communist leaders have been criticising the ongoing visit of a Tibetan Buddhist master on invitation from the country’s Buddhist community at a 10-day religious...
www.tibetanreview.net
February 7, 2026 at 4:09 PM
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2 new ahead-of-print articles live now! In 'The Fugitive Steppe', Jackie Erlon-Baurjan examines how Russian imperial ambitions to transform the Kazakh steppe between 1840 and 1914 were shaped by and in turn reshaped understandings of climate. doi.org/10.3828/whpe... 🗃️ #envhist
February 6, 2026 at 4:32 PM
'Minneapolis is the historic heart of the American Indian Movement. It was founded in the Twin Cities in 1968 amid extraordinary levels of violence against the Native community committed by the Minneapolis Police Department...'
February 7, 2026 at 3:41 PM
View of Mt. Gyachung Kang

#Nepal #MahalangurHimal #Himalaya

Morozumi Osamu, 2001.
February 7, 2026 at 2:56 PM
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And more on the collaboration with the Glasgow School of Art research and digital reconstruction here. #Skystorians
February 7, 2026 at 8:58 AM
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When Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary made history by reaching the summit, a courier named Ten Tsewang Sherpa ran 200 miles to Kathmandu to deliver the news. He died a few weeks later. His story has never been told—until now.
The Forgotten Hero of the 1953 First Ascent of Mount Everest
When Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary made history by reaching the summit, a courier named Ten Tsewang Sherpa ran 200 miles to Kathmandu to deliver the news. He died a few weeks later. His story has never been told—until now.
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February 6, 2026 at 2:30 PM
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Such a great book! What happens when this major indigenous religious carving gets moved from its local and embedded place to outside the Museo Nacional de Antropología in Mexico City? Issues we usually see in imperial art repatriation situations are seen here between the nation & the community.
Save 30% on #NewBook "The Absent Stone" by Sandra Rozental, which tells the story of the Piedra de los Tecomates, the largest stone monument in the Americas and the issues of cultural patrimony surrounding it. buff.ly/BNjptWC
February 6, 2026 at 2:39 PM
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After releasing five-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos from immigration detention, DHS has moved to end asylum claims for his family.

Immigration lawyer Danielle Molliver described the DHS’s latest motion as “retaliatory.” trib.al/LREQFxm
February 6, 2026 at 3:28 PM
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Latest podcast! We talk to Simone Kenyon, choreographer + artistic creator of the place-sensitive performance piece Into the Mountain, inspired by the lyrical & embodied prose of Nan Shepherd’s 1974 book. #Cairngorms
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@jamesmcconnachie.bsky.social @julianhoffman.bsky.social
January 30, 2026 at 11:40 AM
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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.

@royalhistsoc.org @historyworkshop.org.uk
February 5, 2026 at 4:37 PM
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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.

@inneskeighren.bsky.social @benmanderson.bsky.social
February 5, 2026 at 4:35 PM
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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.

@waymarks.bsky.social @andrewwyatt.bsky.social
February 5, 2026 at 12:39 PM
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The government has gone very far down a very dark road.

This announcement of mass deportations while also seeking to gut rights protections is frightening.

Meanwhile, the home secretary is openly using fascist rhetoric.

We were quoted in the Guardian 👇
Home Office says nearly 60,000 people deported from UK or left voluntarily since 2024 election
Shabana Mahmood insists deportations will rise, as Labour government is accused of promoting ‘harmful stereotypes’ of migrants
www.theguardian.com
February 6, 2026 at 11:16 AM
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BREAKING: The federal government has filed a motion seeking to end asylum claims for the family of Liam Conejo Ramos, according to the lawyer representing the family.
DHS has requested expedited deportation proceedings against family of Liam Conejo Ramos
The federal government has filed a motion seeking to end asylum claims for the family of Liam Conejo Ramos, according to the lawyer representing the family.
www.mprnews.org
February 6, 2026 at 2:17 AM
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.

@antipodeonline.bsky.social @oxford-anthro.bsky.social
February 5, 2026 at 4:39 PM
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.

@royalhistsoc.org @historyworkshop.org.uk
February 5, 2026 at 4:37 PM
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.

@inneskeighren.bsky.social @benmanderson.bsky.social
February 5, 2026 at 4:35 PM
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.

@waymarks.bsky.social @andrewwyatt.bsky.social
February 5, 2026 at 12:39 PM
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New blog post: “Modernity as Detour: Aby Warburg and the Kyoto School” by Xinyi Wen.

From Warburg’s unrealised Japan trip (1896) to Renaissance astrology in Japan’s modernity debates (1942).

warburg.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

#WarburgInstitute #IntellectualHistory #HistoryOfIdeas
Modernity as Detour: Aby Warburg and the Kyoto School
From a cancelled 1896 voyage to Yokohama to the 1942 “Overcoming Modernity” symposium, Xinyi Wen traces how Warburg’s ideas travelled into twentieth century Japanese debates on modernity.
warburg.sas.ac.uk
February 5, 2026 at 11:28 AM
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.

@tibetcurator.bsky.social @ruthgamble.bsky.social
February 5, 2026 at 11:34 AM
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.

@sarahmpicks.bsky.social @calebscarter.bsky.social
February 5, 2026 at 10:33 AM
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.

@rgsibg.bsky.social @rgs-ibghe.bsky.social #Himalaya
February 5, 2026 at 9:55 AM
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.

@mtnresearchmri.bsky.social @icimod.bsky.social
February 5, 2026 at 9:40 AM
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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.

@christophersmith.bsky.social @ukri.org
February 4, 2026 at 1:08 PM
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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.
@mountainsofgreece.bsky.social @profpitches.bsky.social
February 4, 2026 at 12:58 PM