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The Himalayan Journal - Volume 77

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The Himalayan Journal is compiled and published annually by The Himalayan Club. This year the journal was guest edited by Little Peak founder, Heather Dawe, who curated and edited the content with the journal's editor Nandini Puranadare.

The theme of the journal this year was 'how can we go to mountains when we cannot physically go to them?', in response to pandemic lockdown and the climate emergency. A rich and varied set of responses were received from the journal's contributors, including the following:

• Katies Ives explored how the disappearance of Mallory and Irving inspired WH Auden, Christopher Isherwood and Virginia Woolf in their writing.
• Dr. Vash Veer Bhatnager discusses the ways in which mountaineers and local people can play a role in scientific research into the flora and fauna of the Himalaya (including rare species such as the snow leopard) using citizen science and novel statistical methods.
• Anindya Mukherjee writes of the impact of the pandemic on his guiding business, and how he instead found himself helping with the relief efforts after the devastating cyclone that hit Eastern India and Bangladesh in May 2020.
• Faye Latham crafts 'Black Holes and Paper Portals' - erasure poetry created from F S Smythe's 'The Kangchenjunga Adventure'.
• Paul Pritchard revisits the Himalaya through his imagination.

Others pieces include non-fiction, fiction and poetry from contributors including John Porter, Bernadette McDonald, Pete Takeda, Anna Fleming, Heather Dawe, John Altringham, Stephen Alter, George Rodway and Vineeta Muni, alongside artwork from Vineeta Muni, Heather Dawe and John Altringham.

The wider content of the journal includes details of expeditions, first ascents and book reviews.