INT D280 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Lower Grindelwald Glacier, Saint Elias Mountains, Richard Pococke

• School: University of Alberta
• Department: Interdisciplinary Undergraduate and Graduate Courses
• Course: INT D280
• Professor: Zac Robinson

Document Summary

Glaciers in western imagination: from 1601 another 3/4 a century where glaciers reputation begins in the. English world: one early english report from 1673 - the mountain it self is very high, and extends it self every year more and more over the neighboring meadows, by increments that make a great noise of cracking. There are great holes and caverns, which are made when the ice bursts; which happens at all times, but especially in the dog-days. Mount logan is the highest one (5959 m): glaciers were seen as actors that could interact with humans in different ways. Local indigenous cultures saw them like this: londoners in the 1700s knew little about glaciers, william burnet : reported to the royal society in 1708 observations of the lower grindelwald glacier in switzerland. He wrote accordingly i went to the grindelwald, a mountain two days journey from bern.