Publications
This page will collect notices of publications by Mountain Legacy as an organization and by its members as individuals, as well as of resources that members consider valuable to our mission. If you would like to contribute to this collection, please forward title and links to us.
Books
Mountain Legacy, in collaboration with the Himalayan Association for the Advancement of Science, has published two monographs by Jack D. Ives (shown above at his Hillary Medal acceptance ceremony in Ottawa, 2015). The first was a greatly enhanced second edition of Himalayan Perceptions: Environmental Change and the Well-being of Mountain Peoples (2006, first published by Routledge in 2004). Purchase: this book on Amazon.
In 2013 HIMAAP published Sustainable Mountain Development: Getting the Facts Right. Review by Pasang Yangjee Sherpa in Himalaya: Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies (Macalester)
In 2016, Mountain Legacy published Jack D. Ives, Montologist: Festschrift for a Mountain Advocate. One chapter focuses on the Sir Edmund Hillary Mountain Legacy Medal: Hillary Model, Hillary Medal, by Seth Sicroff.
Jack D. Ives, Montologist
Festschrift for a Mountain Advocate,
edited by Kumar Mainali
and Seth Sicroff
Sustainable Mountain Development:
Getting the Facts Right,
by Jack D. Ives
Himalayan Perceptions:
Environmental Change and
the Well-being of Mountain Peoples,
by Jack D. Ives
Other Books
Byers, Alton. 2017. Khumbu Since 1950: Cultural, Landscape, and Climate Change in the Sagarmatha (Mt. Everest) National Park, Khumbu, Nepal.
Articles published in journals and conference proceedings
Sicroff, S.; E. Alos; R. Shrestha. 2003. Independent backpacker tourism: Key to sustainable development in remote mountain destinations [ pdf ], in Landscapes of Diversity: Indigenous Knowledge, Sustainable Livelihoods and Resource Governance in Montane Mainland Southeast Asia by Xu, J.; S. Mikesell
https://www.mountainlegacy.org/661.pdfIves, J. D.; T. Watanabe; S. Sicroff; N. R. Khanal. 2001 (May). International Symposium on the Himalayan Environments: Mountain Sciences and Ecotourism/Biodiversity, Kathmandu, Nepal, 24–26 November 2000, in Mountain Research and Development.
Academic theses and dissertations
Articles available only online
Sicroff, S. 2019 (May 28). Daniel Mazur and the redemption of Mt. Everest
Sicroff, S. 2015 (April 26). Haiti's grim reminder to Nepal
Sicroff, S. 2011 (November 18).Trekking in Nepal: The Road to Rolwaling (Part 2)
Sicroff, S. 2011 (October 20). Trekking in Nepal: The Road to Rolwaling (Part 1)
Sicroff, S. 2011 (September 16). Dream Flags Cause Flutter in Khumjung
Sicroff, S. 2011 (August 19). Khumjung School Golden Jubilee
Sicroff, S. 2011 (July 22). Kathmandu: What's Not to Like?
Sicroff, S. 2011 (February 19). This May in Nepal: Join the Khumjung Celebration!
Sicroff, S. 2011 (January 28). Kathmandu’s Kumaris
Sicroff, S. 2010 (December 16). Hillary Medalist Redefines Development
Sicroff, S. 2010 (October 28). Cho Oyu: There, and Back
Sicroff, S. 2010 (September 17) Yeti tourism: preamble
Sicroff, S. 2010 (August 20). Bucket Listing Mt. Mera
Sicroff, S. 2010 (July 15). Tashi Laptsa: Do It Yourself
Sicroff, S. 2010 (June 18). Nepal Partourism: 13 Ways to Make It Happen
Sicroff, S, and S. MacLennan. 2010 (May 21). "I do it because I can."
Zank, O. 2010 (May 20). Volunteering for The Mountain Fund in Kathmandu
Lovely, Chuck. 2010 (May 20). The Mountain Fund's 2010 Nepal Medical Trek
Sicroff, S. 2010 (April 16). HM, GPK, COPD, THEM, LTI and other BFDs
Sicroff, S. 2010 (March 18). The Next Really Big Thing: The Great Himalaya Trail
Sicroff, S. 2010 (March 18). On crying "Himalayan Meltdown!!!"
Sicroff, S., and P. Etters. 2010 (January 28). Participatory Tourism #3: Student Returns with Clinic
Sicroff, S. 2010 (January 1). Participatory Tourism: Climber Adopts Village
Sicroff, S. 2009 (December 21). Participatory Tourism: Nepal Trekker Sponsors Orphans
Voigts, J. 2009 (October 23). Sunrise Pashmina
Contact
Do you have suggestions or other feedback? Contact Mountain Legacy Projects Coordinator Seth Sicroff at sicroff@mountainlegacy.org
511 W. Green St., Ithaca NY, 14850 USA; (607) 256-0102.