Jonathan Westaway
@jonwestaway.bsky.social
Cultural and environmental historian/geographer. Mountain and polar regions. Cryohistories. Indigenous knowledge. Island Studies.
PL AHRC 'Other Everests' network.
uclan.academia.edu/JonathanWestaway
PL AHRC 'Other Everests' network.
uclan.academia.edu/JonathanWestaway
November 9, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Very much looking forward to speaking at this conference about #GeorgeMallory #Mountianeering #QueerAesthetics #HapticModernism
‘But there is Art and ART’: Winckelmann, Pater and the Haptic Aesthetics of Mountaincraft.'
ABSTRACT: shorturl.at/DjkJ3
‘But there is Art and ART’: Winckelmann, Pater and the Haptic Aesthetics of Mountaincraft.'
ABSTRACT: shorturl.at/DjkJ3
November 5, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Very much looking forward to speaking at this conference about #GeorgeMallory #Mountianeering #QueerAesthetics #HapticModernism
‘But there is Art and ART’: Winckelmann, Pater and the Haptic Aesthetics of Mountaincraft.'
ABSTRACT: shorturl.at/DjkJ3
‘But there is Art and ART’: Winckelmann, Pater and the Haptic Aesthetics of Mountaincraft.'
ABSTRACT: shorturl.at/DjkJ3
Venus Italica
Antonio Canova (1757–1822) (after)
Towneley Hall Art Gallery & Museum, Burnley, Lancashire.
‘I shall have a craftsman
Make a likeness of your body
And lay it in our bed...'
Alkestis by Euripedes, translated by Anne Carson, lines 309-313.
Antonio Canova (1757–1822) (after)
Towneley Hall Art Gallery & Museum, Burnley, Lancashire.
‘I shall have a craftsman
Make a likeness of your body
And lay it in our bed...'
Alkestis by Euripedes, translated by Anne Carson, lines 309-313.
October 26, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Venus Italica
Antonio Canova (1757–1822) (after)
Towneley Hall Art Gallery & Museum, Burnley, Lancashire.
‘I shall have a craftsman
Make a likeness of your body
And lay it in our bed...'
Alkestis by Euripedes, translated by Anne Carson, lines 309-313.
Antonio Canova (1757–1822) (after)
Towneley Hall Art Gallery & Museum, Burnley, Lancashire.
‘I shall have a craftsman
Make a likeness of your body
And lay it in our bed...'
Alkestis by Euripedes, translated by Anne Carson, lines 309-313.
Julia and Leslie Stephen in a churchyard, Grindelwald, Switzerland, 1889
by Gabriel Loppé (1825-1913)
Mortimer Rare Book Collection, Smith College.
www.smith.edu/libraries/li...
by Gabriel Loppé (1825-1913)
Mortimer Rare Book Collection, Smith College.
www.smith.edu/libraries/li...
October 14, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Julia and Leslie Stephen in a churchyard, Grindelwald, Switzerland, 1889
by Gabriel Loppé (1825-1913)
Mortimer Rare Book Collection, Smith College.
www.smith.edu/libraries/li...
by Gabriel Loppé (1825-1913)
Mortimer Rare Book Collection, Smith College.
www.smith.edu/libraries/li...
Lady Ottoline Morrell ('A walk near Gastein')
by Philip Edward Morrell
vintage snapshot print, August 1908
NPG Ax140006
shorturl.at/BtfFO
by Philip Edward Morrell
vintage snapshot print, August 1908
NPG Ax140006
shorturl.at/BtfFO
October 6, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Lady Ottoline Morrell ('A walk near Gastein')
by Philip Edward Morrell
vintage snapshot print, August 1908
NPG Ax140006
shorturl.at/BtfFO
by Philip Edward Morrell
vintage snapshot print, August 1908
NPG Ax140006
shorturl.at/BtfFO
Late to the party but Bengt Berg had some strong links with early British imperial conservationists in India in the 1930s, notably E. O. Shebbeare, conservator of forests in West Bengal and a pioneer of rhino conservation. The ethologist Konrad Lorenz's Nazi sympathies might be another link...
September 17, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Late to the party but Bengt Berg had some strong links with early British imperial conservationists in India in the 1930s, notably E. O. Shebbeare, conservator of forests in West Bengal and a pioneer of rhino conservation. The ethologist Konrad Lorenz's Nazi sympathies might be another link...
TY to all who attended our @rgsibg.bsky.social AC2025 panel 'Dead bodies on Everest: the post-mortal personhood of human remains in the cryosphere' + TY to speakers Paul Gilchrist @7mmrope.bsky.social @jasewilson.bsky.social @jonwestaway.bsky.social
#Himalaya #DeathStudies #DarkTourism #HistGeog
#Himalaya #DeathStudies #DarkTourism #HistGeog
August 29, 2025 at 11:41 AM
TY to all who attended our @rgsibg.bsky.social AC2025 panel 'Dead bodies on Everest: the post-mortal personhood of human remains in the cryosphere' + TY to speakers Paul Gilchrist @7mmrope.bsky.social @jasewilson.bsky.social @jonwestaway.bsky.social
#Himalaya #DeathStudies #DarkTourism #HistGeog
#Himalaya #DeathStudies #DarkTourism #HistGeog
Possible sighting of Polar Bear on the the pack ice off the coast of Iceland's Westfjords. It's not called Ursus Maritimus for nothing! Olaus Magnus 1539 Carta Marina possibly the first depiction of ice bears in Iceland?
grapevine.is/news/2025/07...
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August 14, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Possible sighting of Polar Bear on the the pack ice off the coast of Iceland's Westfjords. It's not called Ursus Maritimus for nothing! Olaus Magnus 1539 Carta Marina possibly the first depiction of ice bears in Iceland?
grapevine.is/news/2025/07...
grapevine.is/news/2025/07...
...and optical telegraphy was still in use in the mountains in WW1.
August 2, 2025 at 11:45 AM
...and optical telegraphy was still in use in the mountains in WW1.
July 27, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Difficult subject. I'm chairing a panel on the #HistGeog of human remains on Everest at the RGS-IBG Conference 28 Aug 2025. My paper 👉 'No Ordinary Thing: The Ontological Afterlives of Human Remains on Everest' shorturl.at/o30YB #Himalaya #Mountaineering #Everest #Nepal #CryoHist #DeathStudies
July 23, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Difficult subject. I'm chairing a panel on the #HistGeog of human remains on Everest at the RGS-IBG Conference 28 Aug 2025. My paper 👉 'No Ordinary Thing: The Ontological Afterlives of Human Remains on Everest' shorturl.at/o30YB #Himalaya #Mountaineering #Everest #Nepal #CryoHist #DeathStudies
Going to be talking about 'The Mandala Empire and the Cosmological Mountain: British Geostrategy in the Hindu Kush-Himalaya c.1900-1947' at State-Building in Mountainous Regions, University of Staffordshire, 7 October 2025 shorturl.at/9j4sg #HinduKush #Himalaya #Imperialism #Borders #NonStateSpace
July 23, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Going to be talking about 'The Mandala Empire and the Cosmological Mountain: British Geostrategy in the Hindu Kush-Himalaya c.1900-1947' at State-Building in Mountainous Regions, University of Staffordshire, 7 October 2025 shorturl.at/9j4sg #HinduKush #Himalaya #Imperialism #Borders #NonStateSpace
March 23, 2025 at 12:46 PM
The lithic as passage to action and the foundation of representation.
'Langdale Glisk' Paintings by Pip Seymour and Rebecca Wallace.
New exhibition at The Archive Gallery, Heaton Cooper Studio, Grasmere, LA22 9SX.
'Langdale Glisk' Paintings by Pip Seymour and Rebecca Wallace.
New exhibition at The Archive Gallery, Heaton Cooper Studio, Grasmere, LA22 9SX.
March 20, 2025 at 11:37 AM
The lithic as passage to action and the foundation of representation.
'Langdale Glisk' Paintings by Pip Seymour and Rebecca Wallace.
New exhibition at The Archive Gallery, Heaton Cooper Studio, Grasmere, LA22 9SX.
'Langdale Glisk' Paintings by Pip Seymour and Rebecca Wallace.
New exhibition at The Archive Gallery, Heaton Cooper Studio, Grasmere, LA22 9SX.
Mountains as elemental media. Social media as infrastructure in Solu Khumbu.
CHAPTER 14 - Digital Media on Everest
www.manchesterhive.com/display/9781...
AUTHOR: Jolynna Sinanan
#OtherEverests #Himalaya #Nepal #DigitalAnthro #Mountaineering #HighAltWork
CHAPTER 14 - Digital Media on Everest
www.manchesterhive.com/display/9781...
AUTHOR: Jolynna Sinanan
#OtherEverests #Himalaya #Nepal #DigitalAnthro #Mountaineering #HighAltWork
March 17, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Mountains as elemental media. Social media as infrastructure in Solu Khumbu.
CHAPTER 14 - Digital Media on Everest
www.manchesterhive.com/display/9781...
AUTHOR: Jolynna Sinanan
#OtherEverests #Himalaya #Nepal #DigitalAnthro #Mountaineering #HighAltWork
CHAPTER 14 - Digital Media on Everest
www.manchesterhive.com/display/9781...
AUTHOR: Jolynna Sinanan
#OtherEverests #Himalaya #Nepal #DigitalAnthro #Mountaineering #HighAltWork
Labour hierarchies, imperial legacies and the embodied relations of production on Everest.
CHAPTER 12 - Sherpa's Everest and expedition conglomerate
AUTHOR: Young Hoon Oh
rb.gy/bbtizz
#OtherEverests #Himalaya #Mountaineering #HighAltWork
CHAPTER 12 - Sherpa's Everest and expedition conglomerate
AUTHOR: Young Hoon Oh
rb.gy/bbtizz
#OtherEverests #Himalaya #Mountaineering #HighAltWork
February 26, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Labour hierarchies, imperial legacies and the embodied relations of production on Everest.
CHAPTER 12 - Sherpa's Everest and expedition conglomerate
AUTHOR: Young Hoon Oh
rb.gy/bbtizz
#OtherEverests #Himalaya #Mountaineering #HighAltWork
CHAPTER 12 - Sherpa's Everest and expedition conglomerate
AUTHOR: Young Hoon Oh
rb.gy/bbtizz
#OtherEverests #Himalaya #Mountaineering #HighAltWork
Thick resistance. Agency, earthquake, avalanche, pandemic, death and the making of the new Nepali mountaineer.
CHAPTER 11 - Reclaiming Everest:
Discontents, disasters, and the making of a Nepali mountain.
AUTHOR - Ian Bellows
rb.gy/pheorq
#OtherEverests #Himalaya #Nepal #HighAltWork
CHAPTER 11 - Reclaiming Everest:
Discontents, disasters, and the making of a Nepali mountain.
AUTHOR - Ian Bellows
rb.gy/pheorq
#OtherEverests #Himalaya #Nepal #HighAltWork
February 18, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Thick resistance. Agency, earthquake, avalanche, pandemic, death and the making of the new Nepali mountaineer.
CHAPTER 11 - Reclaiming Everest:
Discontents, disasters, and the making of a Nepali mountain.
AUTHOR - Ian Bellows
rb.gy/pheorq
#OtherEverests #Himalaya #Nepal #HighAltWork
CHAPTER 11 - Reclaiming Everest:
Discontents, disasters, and the making of a Nepali mountain.
AUTHOR - Ian Bellows
rb.gy/pheorq
#OtherEverests #Himalaya #Nepal #HighAltWork
Blue Whale grave, Hirota, Rikuzen-Takata, Iwate
prefecture, Japan, 24 January 1905.
From Mayumi Itoh's The Japanese Culture of Mourning Whales: Whale Graves and Memorial Monuments in Japan (2018) #AnimalHist #WorldWhaleDay #Cetaceans #Mourning #Ritual
prefecture, Japan, 24 January 1905.
From Mayumi Itoh's The Japanese Culture of Mourning Whales: Whale Graves and Memorial Monuments in Japan (2018) #AnimalHist #WorldWhaleDay #Cetaceans #Mourning #Ritual
February 16, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Blue Whale grave, Hirota, Rikuzen-Takata, Iwate
prefecture, Japan, 24 January 1905.
From Mayumi Itoh's The Japanese Culture of Mourning Whales: Whale Graves and Memorial Monuments in Japan (2018) #AnimalHist #WorldWhaleDay #Cetaceans #Mourning #Ritual
prefecture, Japan, 24 January 1905.
From Mayumi Itoh's The Japanese Culture of Mourning Whales: Whale Graves and Memorial Monuments in Japan (2018) #AnimalHist #WorldWhaleDay #Cetaceans #Mourning #Ritual
Nonaligned nationalisms. The first ascent of the West Ridge Direct on Everest, 1979.
CHAPTER 10 - The ‘Slovenian’ Everest 1979: A small nation and the highest mountain in the world.
AUTHORS: Peter Mikša and Matija Zorn.
rb.gy/c60us6
#OtherEverests #Mountaineering #Nationalism #Yugoslavia
CHAPTER 10 - The ‘Slovenian’ Everest 1979: A small nation and the highest mountain in the world.
AUTHORS: Peter Mikša and Matija Zorn.
rb.gy/c60us6
#OtherEverests #Mountaineering #Nationalism #Yugoslavia
February 13, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Nonaligned nationalisms. The first ascent of the West Ridge Direct on Everest, 1979.
CHAPTER 10 - The ‘Slovenian’ Everest 1979: A small nation and the highest mountain in the world.
AUTHORS: Peter Mikša and Matija Zorn.
rb.gy/c60us6
#OtherEverests #Mountaineering #Nationalism #Yugoslavia
CHAPTER 10 - The ‘Slovenian’ Everest 1979: A small nation and the highest mountain in the world.
AUTHORS: Peter Mikša and Matija Zorn.
rb.gy/c60us6
#OtherEverests #Mountaineering #Nationalism #Yugoslavia
Gendering spaces of exception.
CHAPTER 9 - Expecting hypermasculinity from a woman mountaineer: Wanda Rutkiewicz’s ascent of Everest.
AUTHOR: Agnieszka Irena Kaczmarek
rb.gy/0ejkwc
#OtherEverests #Everest #Mountaineering #Gender #Himalaya
CHAPTER 9 - Expecting hypermasculinity from a woman mountaineer: Wanda Rutkiewicz’s ascent of Everest.
AUTHOR: Agnieszka Irena Kaczmarek
rb.gy/0ejkwc
#OtherEverests #Everest #Mountaineering #Gender #Himalaya
February 12, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Gendering spaces of exception.
CHAPTER 9 - Expecting hypermasculinity from a woman mountaineer: Wanda Rutkiewicz’s ascent of Everest.
AUTHOR: Agnieszka Irena Kaczmarek
rb.gy/0ejkwc
#OtherEverests #Everest #Mountaineering #Gender #Himalaya
CHAPTER 9 - Expecting hypermasculinity from a woman mountaineer: Wanda Rutkiewicz’s ascent of Everest.
AUTHOR: Agnieszka Irena Kaczmarek
rb.gy/0ejkwc
#OtherEverests #Everest #Mountaineering #Gender #Himalaya
Rewriting the hermeneutic space of public memory. Women's critical role in mountaineering historiography.
CHAPTER 8 - Rewriting Irvine into Everest: Audrey Salkeld and Julie Summers.
AUTHOR: Anna Saroldi @ss7.bsky.social
rb.gy/hufe5v
#OtherEverests #Mountaineering #History #Narrative #Memory
CHAPTER 8 - Rewriting Irvine into Everest: Audrey Salkeld and Julie Summers.
AUTHOR: Anna Saroldi @ss7.bsky.social
rb.gy/hufe5v
#OtherEverests #Mountaineering #History #Narrative #Memory
February 11, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Rewriting the hermeneutic space of public memory. Women's critical role in mountaineering historiography.
CHAPTER 8 - Rewriting Irvine into Everest: Audrey Salkeld and Julie Summers.
AUTHOR: Anna Saroldi @ss7.bsky.social
rb.gy/hufe5v
#OtherEverests #Mountaineering #History #Narrative #Memory
CHAPTER 8 - Rewriting Irvine into Everest: Audrey Salkeld and Julie Summers.
AUTHOR: Anna Saroldi @ss7.bsky.social
rb.gy/hufe5v
#OtherEverests #Mountaineering #History #Narrative #Memory
Mountains of inequality. Asian women mountaineers on Everest and the intersection of race, gender and Western mountaineering narratives.
CHAPTER 7 - Women on Everest: A summit beyond.
AUTHOR: Jenny Hall
rb.gy/rreyr6
#OtherEverests #Mountaineering #Himalaya #Gender #Race #Indigeneity
CHAPTER 7 - Women on Everest: A summit beyond.
AUTHOR: Jenny Hall
rb.gy/rreyr6
#OtherEverests #Mountaineering #Himalaya #Gender #Race #Indigeneity
February 10, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Mountains of inequality. Asian women mountaineers on Everest and the intersection of race, gender and Western mountaineering narratives.
CHAPTER 7 - Women on Everest: A summit beyond.
AUTHOR: Jenny Hall
rb.gy/rreyr6
#OtherEverests #Mountaineering #Himalaya #Gender #Race #Indigeneity
CHAPTER 7 - Women on Everest: A summit beyond.
AUTHOR: Jenny Hall
rb.gy/rreyr6
#OtherEverests #Mountaineering #Himalaya #Gender #Race #Indigeneity
The Wellcome Collection has an extraordinary collection of photographic postcards of crossdressing and Queer subjects, and then there is this...
wellcomecollection.org/works/ghw8t5...
@heikebauer.bsky.social
wellcomecollection.org/works/ghw8t5...
@heikebauer.bsky.social
February 10, 2025 at 3:14 PM
The Wellcome Collection has an extraordinary collection of photographic postcards of crossdressing and Queer subjects, and then there is this...
wellcomecollection.org/works/ghw8t5...
@heikebauer.bsky.social
wellcomecollection.org/works/ghw8t5...
@heikebauer.bsky.social
Invisible infrastructure. Unlearning imperialism, seeing the indigenous presence on Everest.
CHAPTER 6 - Seeing histories from the margins
An Indigenous labour force on Everest, 1921–53.
AUTHOR: Prof. Jayeeta Sharma
rb.gy/hk4iyg
#Himalaya #Indigenous #HighAltWork #Photography #Mountaineering
CHAPTER 6 - Seeing histories from the margins
An Indigenous labour force on Everest, 1921–53.
AUTHOR: Prof. Jayeeta Sharma
rb.gy/hk4iyg
#Himalaya #Indigenous #HighAltWork #Photography #Mountaineering
February 7, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Invisible infrastructure. Unlearning imperialism, seeing the indigenous presence on Everest.
CHAPTER 6 - Seeing histories from the margins
An Indigenous labour force on Everest, 1921–53.
AUTHOR: Prof. Jayeeta Sharma
rb.gy/hk4iyg
#Himalaya #Indigenous #HighAltWork #Photography #Mountaineering
CHAPTER 6 - Seeing histories from the margins
An Indigenous labour force on Everest, 1921–53.
AUTHOR: Prof. Jayeeta Sharma
rb.gy/hk4iyg
#Himalaya #Indigenous #HighAltWork #Photography #Mountaineering
Borderland imaginaries. The Western literary imagination in the Tibetan borderlands.
CHAPTER 5 - Far-away frontiers and spiritual sanctuaries
Occidental escapism in the high Himalaya.
rb.gy/578vsf
AUTHOR: @waymarks.bsky.social
#Himalaya #Tibet #ShangriLa #HiddenLands
CHAPTER 5 - Far-away frontiers and spiritual sanctuaries
Occidental escapism in the high Himalaya.
rb.gy/578vsf
AUTHOR: @waymarks.bsky.social
#Himalaya #Tibet #ShangriLa #HiddenLands
February 6, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Borderland imaginaries. The Western literary imagination in the Tibetan borderlands.
CHAPTER 5 - Far-away frontiers and spiritual sanctuaries
Occidental escapism in the high Himalaya.
rb.gy/578vsf
AUTHOR: @waymarks.bsky.social
#Himalaya #Tibet #ShangriLa #HiddenLands
CHAPTER 5 - Far-away frontiers and spiritual sanctuaries
Occidental escapism in the high Himalaya.
rb.gy/578vsf
AUTHOR: @waymarks.bsky.social
#Himalaya #Tibet #ShangriLa #HiddenLands