My final paper topic is going to be the environmental impacts on mountains from mountaineering.
One of my most useful sources for this essay with be Thin Ice by Mark Bowen, which will hit on the changing ice caps and its clues to the changing climate in reference to high altitude and the mountains. It gives the science behind it, as well information on different regions, and different mountains, and what the future holds for these mountains. I am still trying to find the research Conrad Anker has done on this, but he has spoken a lot about environmentalism and climbing and the impacts of climate change so those will be my most useful sources.
My sources are:
FOOD, WASTE, AND JUDGMENT ON MOUNT EVEREST Author(s): Elizabeth Mazzolini
Source: Cultural Critique, No. 76 (Fall 2010), pp. 1-27 Published by: University of Minnesota Press.http://www.sintellectual.org/hstr467/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Mazzolini-Food-Waste-Everest.pdf
Norgay, Jamling Tenzing. 2004. “Mountains as an Existential Resource, Expression in Religion, Environment and Culture”. Ambio. [Springer, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences], 56–57. http://www.jstor.org/stable/25094589.
Stevens, Stanley F.. 1993. “Tourism, Change, and Continuity in the Mount Everest Region, Nepal”. Geographical Review 83 (4). [American Geographical Society, Wiley]: 410–27. doi:10.2307/215823.
Rasher, Brad. “Experts Ask: Are We Loving Our Mountains to Death?”. The Alpinist. Aug.7, 2014.
Radio Script with Conrad Anke. https://seagrant.uaf.edu/news/01ASJ/12.07.01mountain-change.html
Bowen, Mark. Thin Ice: Unlocking the Secrets of Climate in the World’s Highest Mountains. (Henry Holt and Company: New York)