The Himalayan Database
The Himalayan Database is a US non-profit organization that regularly updates and publishes the Mountaineering Chronicle Himalayan Database , initiated by Elizabeth Hawley and Richard Salisbury, and published free of charge. All expeditions to major mountains in the Nepalese Himalayas since 1905 are listed in the Himalayan Database . The chronicle also includes inspections of the mountains from the Chinese and Indian sides.
Himalayan Database
history
Elizabeth Hawley began in the 1960s to document expedition mountaineering in Nepal in detail based on expedition reports and interviews with expedition members. Richard Salisbury digitized these records as the starting point for the Himalayan Database , supplemented by information from books, alpine magazines and mountaineering correspondence. The Himalayan Database was first published in 2004 in the American Alpine Journal in booklet format with an accompanying CD-ROM. The data was updated every two years.
Elizabeth Hawley retired from the Himalayan Database in 2016 at the age of 92 and handed it over to her long-time assistant, Billi Bierling . In Kathmandu, Bierling heads the staff of the on-site history, consisting of the Nepalese Jeevan Shrestha, the French Rodolphe Popier and the German Tobias Pantel. American Salisbury, based in Ann Arbor , Michigan , is the technical director of the Himalayan Database . In 2017 the non-profit organization The Himalayan Database was founded, which makes the Himalayan Database available for download on its website.
Since the number of expeditions in Nepal has risen dramatically "since the beginning of commercial climbing in the 1990s", not all visits by The Himalayan Database staff can be recorded and verified through personal conversations. Since 2017 it has been possible for expeditions to submit their visit to the chronicle using an online form.
Database
The database includes all expedition ascents of the approx. 460 important Nepalese Himalayan mountains since 1905. The Himalayan Database can be searched for mountains, expeditions, seasons, climbers, nationalities and other indices. In addition to data on the mountains, the processed expedition logs contain biographical information on the people taking part and their functions, explain the routes taken, storage areas, use of bottled oxygen, successes and failures, accidents, deaths and additional literature on published expedition reports.
literature
- Elizabeth Hawley and Richard Salisbury: The Himalayan Database: The Expedition Archives of Elizabeth Hawley. American Alpine Journal, 2004, ISBN 978-0-9304-1099-5 (English)
- Elizabeth Hawley and Richard Salisbury: The Himalaya by the Numbers: A Statistical Analysis of Mountaineering in the Nepal Himalaya. Vajra Publications, Frederick , Maryland 2012, ISBN 978-9-9375-0664-9 (English)
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Titus Arnu: A question of trust: summit bookkeeper. Süddeutsche Zeitung , October 27, 2017, accessed on November 23, 2019 .
- ↑ Stefan Nestler: Himalayan Database soon for free. Deutsche Welle , October 12, 2017, accessed on November 23, 2019 .
- ↑ Determination Letter. (PDF) Internal Revenue Service , July 20, 2017, accessed November 23, 2019 .
- ↑ New version of the data archive online. Himalayan Database: Now accessible to everyone. ALPIN - Das Bergmagazin, December 13, 2017, accessed on November 23, 2019 .
- ↑ Stefan Nestler: Himalaya Chronicle 2.0. Deutsche Welle , March 2, 2017, accessed on November 23, 2019 (English): "Since the start of commercial climbing in the 1990s, however, the number of expedition members in Nepal has exploded."
- ↑ Stefan Nestler: Himalaya Chronicle 2.0. Deutsche Welle , March 12, 2017, accessed November 23, 2019 .