Agassizhorn: Mountain of Shame
(2018)
December 5, 2018
(CH)
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Documentary
• 27m
Overview
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.
Keywords
photography
switzerland
slavery
colonialism
alps mountains
swiss alps
mountaineering
post-colonial
agassizhorn
louis agassiz
swiss colonialism
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Original Language
DE
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