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‘The Pilgrims of Science’: The First Swiss Himalayan Expedition of 1936

17. February 202531. March 2017 Kateryna Selcuk

In 1936 Augusto Gansser (1910-2012) joined another Swiss geologist Arnold Heim (1882-1965) for the first Swiss expedition to the Himalayas that lasted for eight months.  During the expedition both Heim and Gansser kept

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