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Feeling Weird in the Archives

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A dark, sketched illustration of mountaineers falling from a steep mountain face. The figures are rendered in deep shadow, their silhouettes stark against the mountain's surface as they plummet downward. The heavy shading creates a dramatic, ominous tone.

Dani K. Inkpen “History should make you feel weird.” So proclaims a widely touted slogan of history nerds. While there is much in the world foisting weirdness upon us today, too rarely do we intentionally seek the off-beat. History students should. “Weird,” though it has come to mean uncanny or bizarre, has its roots in the idea of the turning… Read more »

Heli-skiing and cultural heritage in contested landscapes

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by Jeff Slack A recent BBC news report highlights some of the key issues in a decades-long debate over heli-skiing in the European Alps. First experimented with in British Columbia’s interior mountain ranges in the 1960s, heli-skiing entails using helicopters in lieu of chairlifts to shuttle small, guided groups of skiers to the top of otherwise difficult-to-access, and thus untracked… Read more »