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The mountain

What happens if we put all our relationships in a hierarchy?

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Talent, tech and visual art

Jamie Hale finds a combination of talent and technology are crucial when it comes to creating great visual art, but how do you keep working when your circumstances are in constant flux?

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The white tears of Taranaki

Taranaki in Aotearoa, New Zealand, is home to the world’s largest dairy factory. Sarah Hopkinson questions the price paid by an area dominated by monoculture.

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Hunting lost plants in botanical collections

A bark specimen at Kew recalls the story of a South American man who harvested the most potent source of the only effective malaria treatment available in the late 1800s. Killed for his work and forgotten by history, Manuel Mamani was a victim of the colonial juggernaut.

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  • Pen-y-Gwryd, Wales: a mountaineering party seated outside Penygwryd Hotel, eight men, six women. Photograph by G.D. and A. Abraham, 1897.
  • Nepal; town life in the Khumbu, 1986. As N0022572C. Namche Bazar (altitude 3446 metres) under snow. The climate in the Khumbu can be harsh and unpredictable. The tents in the foreground belong to a European mountaineering expedition. The yaks are unperturbed.
  • Nepal; Sherpa porters in the Khumbu, 1986. Well-dressed Sherpa porters prepare for a trekking expedition organised for a party of western vacationists. They will guide, bring up the rear, cook and strike camp. Such expeditions pay cash wages far in excess of anything Sherpas could hope to earn elsewhere and such income is invested in loans, cattle, land, tradeable articles and jewellery. Until the influx of mountaineering expeditions following Hillary's Everest climb (1953), western medicine was unknown in the Khumbu. Distribution of mainly analgesic and antibiotic drugs has led to misuse.
  • Mountains. Oil painting.
  • Mountains. Oil painting.
  • Tharp Mountain Girdlestone. Photograph.
  • Tharp Mountain Girdlestone. Photograph.
  • Mountainous view of Sanatorium Bad Suderode in the Harz mountains, Germany. Reproduction of a drawing.
  • Table Bay from the Mountain
  • Berberis aquifolium (Oregon, Mountain, Grape)
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