(University of North Bengal, 31-03-2023) Dutta, Debaditya
paper traces the genealogy of mountaineering from its
origin in the Alpine mountains to its manifestation in the Himalaya
through the mechanisms of colonialism in the late nineteenth century.
Mountaineering and modernity coincided with each other and
conquering the Himalayan mountains became a colonial project. The
paper attempts to show how the entanglements between nature and
humans were (re)organised as mountaineering unfolded in the high
Himalaya. From records on the early Himalayan surveys and
expeditions the paper tries to comprehend the reconfiguration brought
about in the Himalaya through colonial survey and mountaineering
in its early days of inception.
