07//26 – ‘Summits of Learning: 150 years of Mountain Knowledge’
This seminar, organised by Professor Martin Price and held in the Swiss Embassy, London on 4th December 2007, was part of the Alpine Club’s 150th anniversary celebrations and intended to review the advancements made in various forms of mountain knowledge during this critical period. Open to the general public, it was attended by 47 delegates and addressed by a number of world specialists. Speakers and their subjects were:
Ed Douglas: ‘Cathedrals or Laboratories? Mountains, science and the Alpine Club’.
Dr Jim Milledge: ‘150 years of mountain medicine’
Prof Wilfried Haerberli: ‘The Alps without ice?’
Prof Rolf Weingartner: ‘Mountain waters: their significance in a changing world’
Dr Harald Pauli: ‘Upwardly mobile plants: from early Alpine botany to modern surveys for detecting climate change impacts’
Dr Alton Byers: ‘5,000 years of change: landscapes and people of the Sagamatha (Everest) National Park, Khumbu, Nepal’
Prof Bruno Messerli: ‘From local to global: mountain science and mountain policy’
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