Time to Eat the Dogs

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Archive for Expeditions

Straits: Beyond the Myth of Magellan

Felipe Fernandez-Armesto talks about the life and work of Ferdinand Magellan. Fernandez-Armesto is the William P. Reynolds Professor of History at the University of Notre Dame. He is the author of Straits: Beyond the Myth of Magellan.

Felipe Fernandez-Armesto

How does the Webb Telescope Change the Search for Exoplanets?

Dr. Hannah Wakeford talks about the Webb Telescope and its significance for the study of exoplanets, planets orbiting suns in other solar systems. Wakeford is a lecturer in Astrophysics at the University of Bristol. She is also one of the hosts of Exocast: a podcast about exoplanet research and discovery.

The Abominable Snowman

Dr. Carolin Roeder talks about the Soviet search for the abominable snowman and parallels to other wildman legends in the United States and elsewhere. Roeder facilitates research collaboration between the Freie Universität in Berlin and other European universities as part of the Una Europa project. She is the author of the essay “Cold War Creatures: Soviet Science and the Problem of the Abominable Snowman” in Ice and Snow in the Cold War: Histories of Extreme Climatic Environments

The Lessons of the 1996 Everest Disaster

Kaji Sherpa traversing onto the North Face of Everest. Photo Credit: JAMIE MCGUINNESS/PROJECT HIMALAYA (2021)

Markus Hällgren talks about the 1996 Everest disaster from the perspective of business and management. Hällgren is a professor of management and organization at Umeå School of Business and Economics, Umeå University. He is the founder and leader of the interdisciplinary research profile “Extreme Environments – Everyday Decisions” (www.tripleED.com) as well as co-founder and organizer of the International network “Organising Extreme Contexts.”

Markus Hällgren

A Window to Heaven: The Daring First Ascent of Denali

Patrick Dean talks about the first successful ascent of Denali in 1913. Dean is a writer and executive director of the Mountain Goat Trail Alliance. He’s the author of A Window to Heaven: The Daring First Ascent of Denali: America’s Wildest Peak