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Agassizhorn: Mountain of Shame

Agassizhorn: Mountain of Shame

Dec 05, 2018 27m
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In the Bernese Alps, the Agassizhorn peak memorialises Louis Agassiz – a controversial 19th-century scientist, who not only named the mountain after himself, but who claimed he had discovered the Ice Age and went on to become one of the century's most virulent, most influential racists.

Title Agassizhorn: Mountain of Shame
Companies Lichtgarage
Countries Switzerland
Keywords photography, switzerland, slavery, colonialism, alps mountains, swiss alps, mountaineering, post-colonial, agassizhorn, louis agassiz, swiss colonialism

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