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SUMMARY:Mountaineering in a changing climate - Kurt Diemberger\, Doug Scot
 t\, Georg Kaser\, Tsering Dawa and Lobsang Yongdan
DTSTART:20131122T173000Z
DTEND:20131122T190000Z
UID:TALK49091@talks.cam.ac.uk
CONTACT:Rosamunde Almond
DESCRIPTION:Mountains have always captured the imagination of travellers a
 nd the people who live near them and more recently\, they have turned into
  important indicators of the world’s changing climate. A panel including
  eminent mountaineers\, a glaciologist and two Tibetan scholars will use t
 heir experiences of mountain landscapes to talk about changes they have se
 en over their lifetimes\, what those changes indicate and the future chall
 enges surrounding environmental stewardship of these extreme environments.
 \n\nSpeakers include *Doug Scott\, Kurt Diemberger and Georg Kaser*. Tseri
 ng Dawa and Lobsang Yongdan will also give an insight into the significanc
 e of mountains in the “Land of Snow” and the role they play in local e
 nvironmental knowledge.\n\nTickets are free and please follow this link to
  register\n\nDetails of the speakers:\n\n*Kurt Diemberger* An accomplished
  Austrian mountaineer\, writer\, filmmaker and speaker and one of only thr
 ee climbers ever to have made two first ascents of 8000m summits on Broad 
 Peak with Herman Buhl in 1957 and of Dhaulagiri in 1960. Earlier this year
 \, he received the Piolets d’Or Lifetime Achievement Award\, one of moun
 taineering’s highest honours.\n\n*Doug Scott* An English mountaineer who
  has made 45 expeditions to the high mountains of Asia. He has reached the
  summit of 40 peaks\, half of which were climbed by new routes or for the 
 first time in Alpine Style. He has reached the highest peaks on all seven 
 continents – “the seven summits” – and in 2011 received the Piolet
 s d’Or Lifetime Achievement Award.\n\n*Georg Kaser* Professor of Climate
  and Cryospheric Research at the Institute of Meteorology and Geophysics (
 IMGI) at the University of Innsbruck\, Austria\, and Head of the Innsbruck
  University Research Centre of Climate and Cryosphere. A glaciologist and 
 a keen mountaineer\, his research focuses on how glaciers respond to chang
 es in climate.\n\n*Tsering Dawa* Born in the Yamdrog area of Central Tibet
 \, he is a teacher of the Tibetan language and calligraphy at Minzu Univer
 sity and is currently a visiting scholar at the Mongolia and Inner Asia st
 udies Unit of the University of Cambridge.\n\n*Lobsang Yongdan* Born in th
 e Dohi area of Eastern Tibet\, he was trained as a monk at Kumbum monaster
 y and is currently completing his PhD in social anthropology at the Univer
 sity of Cambridge.\n\n*Time*\n\nDoors open at 5pm for a slideshow of photo
 s by the speakers\n\nPanel discussion: 5.30pm – 6.30pm\, followed by que
 stions until 7pm\n\nAfter the questions\, there will be an auction of fram
 ed mountain prints signed by Doug and Kurt to raise funds for Community Ac
 tion Nepal.\n\nThis event is being organised by the *Cambridge Forum for S
 ustainability and the Environment*\, a new Forum in the University which a
 ims to bring together people from across and outside Cambridge to discuss 
 some of the most pressing sustainability challenges we face in the future 
 and the research we need to do to help to prepare for and address those ch
 allenges.\n\nMore information about the Forum can be found "here":http://w
 ww.cfse.cam.ac.uk/
LOCATION:Lady Mitchell Hall\, Sidgwick Site\, Sidgwick Avenue\, Cambridge\
 , CB3 9DA
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