Jonathan Westaway
@jonwestaway
Cultural and environmental historian/geographer. Mountain and polar regions. Cryohistories. Indigenous knowledge. Island Studies. PL AHRC 'Other Everests' network. uclan.academia.edu/JonathanWestaway
Happy #WorldElephantDay #Nepal #Terai IMAGE SOURCE: Major Charles John Morris, c.1935-1938. John Morris Archive, American Heritage Centre, University of Wyoming.
“I flew those mines. I’ve seen the mountain tops that are gone … it’s incredible the amount of metallurgical [coal] that is being taken out of that landscape” news.mongabay.com/2026/07/prop... @mongabay.com
Martha Feldman, Castrato Phantoms: Moreschi, Fellini, and the Sacred Vernacular in Rome, Zone Books 2026. www.zonebooks.org/books/259-ca...
On the edge of Arctic eschatology... #Canna bound on a north-west wind we were joined on Eda Frandsen by a #PomarineSkua #SaveTheBirds #MigratingBirds
We curated an exhibition with The Confluence Collective, Kalimpong, India, sharing archive images of Indigenous high-altitude workers from the @rgs.org with Indigenous communities. बाउ को धुरी छैन “Father Has No Roof over his head” Kalimpong, India 21-27 February 2026. VIDEO: shorturl.at/pdt3D
We created a new film score for 'Climbing Mount Everest' (1922) composed by musicians @affenaudio.bsky.social & Ferenc Gyemant, featuring the Tibetan Buddhist monks of Tashilhunpo Monastery. TY to Paul Scully for premiering this at @kendalmountainfest.bsky.social VIDEO: shorturl.at/unQqB
Partnering with the National Trust we curated an exhibition 'Other Everests: One Mountain, Many Worlds' at #WrayCastle #LakeDistrict highlighting the hidden histories if Indigenous high-altitude workers on Everest. Big TY to Harvey Wilkinson at NT! @researchnt.bsky.social VIDEO: shorturl.at/xhYBn
'In the moment that you think of The Berg, it is already there...' Jakob Tigges and Milia Architecture's 2009 plans to build a 1000m mountain on the old Tempelhof Airport site in Berlin. mila-berlin.com/project/berg #Mountains #Geoengineering #EnvHist
Il canto dell'aurora (The Song of Dawn) 1912, Luigi Rossi. commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Th...
Ingleborough looking like Moab last night... #LonsdaleFellrunners #Ingleborough #Fellrunning
Our friends in The Confluence Collective have made a short film of our Kalimpong exhibition. बाउ को धुरी छैन “Father Has No Roof over his head” Kalimpong, India 21-27 February 2026 shorturl.at/6IbjP #Himalaya #OtherEverests #Archives #Indigenous #Mountaineering @edarmstonsheret.bsky.social
I was lucky enough to take part in this film project by Bevis Bowden, exploring climate change, placemaking & loss on the River Isis in Oxford. Marginalia: Song to the River shorturl.at/8Q4M7 #EnvHist #Film #Ecopoetics #Ecocriticism @dpcarrington.bsky.social @kathleenjamie.bsky.social
I was lucky enough to take part in this film project by Bevis Bowden, exploring climate change, placemaking & loss on the River Isis in Oxford. Marginalia: Song to the River shorturl.at/8Q4M7 #EnvHist #Film #Ecopoetics #Ecocriticism @nichecanada.bsky.social @uio-oceh.bsky.social
I was lucky enough to take part in this film project by Bevis Bowden, exploring climate change, placemaking & loss on the River Isis in Oxford. Marginalia: Song to the River shorturl.at/8Q4M7 #EnvHist #Film #Ecopoetics #Ecocriticism @papayranger.bsky.social @affenaudio.bsky.social
I was lucky enough to take part in this film project by Bevis Bowden, exploring climate change, placemaking & loss on the River Isis in Oxford. Marginalia: Song to the River shorturl.at/8Q4M7 #EnvHist #Film #Ecopoetics #Ecocriticism @profpitches.bsky.social @futuremountain.bsky.social
I was lucky enough to take part in this film project by Bevis Bowden, exploring climate change, placemaking and loss on the River Isis in Oxford. Marginalia: Song to the River shorturl.at/8Q4M7 #EnvHist #EnvHums #Film #Ecopoetics @drpennybradshaw.bsky.social @drdavidcooper.bsky.social
I was lucky enough to take part in this film project by Bevis Bowden, exploring climate change, placemaking and loss on the River Isis in Oxford. Marginalia: Song to the River shorturl.at/8Q4M7 #EnvHist #EnvHums #Film #Poetry @asleuki.bsky.social @eseh.bsky.social @iceho.bsky.social
Stunning election results in Nepal. Maoists and Nepali Congress trounced by RSP. Gen Z votes for change... www.himalmag.com/politics/bal...
Incinération d’un Lama, Tibet, 1927, crayon sur papier, 23,5 x 32 cm. Coll. J.D. far-orientalism.com/collection/l...
View of Mt. Gyachung Kang #Nepal #MahalangurHimal #Himalaya Morozumi Osamu, 2001.
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
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. @pdpbasyal.bsky.social @nikialsford.bsky.social
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
बाउ को धुरी छैन “Father Has No Roof over his head” An #OtherEverests #ConfluenceCollective exhibition, Kalimpong 21-27 February 2026 shorturl.at/YrbVv Lost archives & hidden histories of Indigenous high-altitude workers from the 1920s & 1930s @adambutterworth.bsky.social @alpineclublib.bsky.social
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. @peterhhansen.bsky.social @calmandfearless.bsky.social
2025 reading highlights The Benson Diary: I: 1885-1906; II: 1907-1925 (Pallas Athene, 2025) Editors Eamon Duffy & Ronald Hyam. 27 February 1907 A. C. Benson gives George Mallory a copy of Pater's Renaissance: 'I have a great affection for this boy, & I think he responds.' #QueerHist #Aesthetics