The Rolwaling Conference:
"Mountain Hazards, Mountain Tourism"
On November 4-5 (Sat. and Sun.), 2006, Mountain Legacy will host a symposium on mountain hazards as they relate to mountain tourism. Prior to the conference, Mountain Legacy will lead a tea-house trek to Tsho Rolpa, a moraine-dammed glacial lake that has been the subject of panic and controversy for fifteen years.
 The Rolwaling Conference Mountain Hazards, Mountain Tourism November 4-5, 2006 |
Agenda The larger purpose of the event is to scrutinize the state of our understanding and ability to forecast large-scale natural hazards in remote mountainous destinations and to develop strategies for the mitigation of these hazards that will take into account the losses and disruption incurred by inaccurate predictions.
A specific area of major attention will be the hazard of glacial lake outburst floods (GLOFs), and, as a geographic example, Rolwaling Valley, Nepal. However, the scope of the conference is global and not limited to any particular hazard.
Presentations will cover:
- Tsho Rolpa and tourism in Rolwaling
- Prediction and mitigation of earthquake, mass-wasting, avalanche, flood
- The impact of climate change on mountain hazards
- Adventure tourism, mountaineering, and the pursuit of danger
- Proposal for a Rolwaling Mountain Legacy Institute, and its proposed role in research on and development of tourism in an unstable and remote destination.
Keynote Address "Fools Rush In: Perceptions of Himalayan Hazards," by Prof. Jack D. Ives, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada.
Featured Presentation "Glacial hazard assessment and risk management: lessons from Tsho Rolpa and new perspectives," by Professor John M. Reynolds, Managing Director, Reynolds Geo-Sciences, Ltd. (RGSL) Article about Reynolds in Prof. John Reynolds and RGSL featured in the North Wales Profile Business Magazine, May 2006, Issue 3
Venue Hotel de l'Annapurna (5 stars), 140 Durbar Marg, Kathmandu, Nepal
Registration Fee $30. Includes lunch and dinner on Nov. 4, and lunch on Nov. 5. A limited number of registration fee subsidies will be available. There will be no subsidies of travel or other expenses. You may register online or by email.
Payment Once you register, you will receive an email invoice from Mountain Legacy. Payments can be made securely through Paypal to this email address:
You do not need your own Paypal account. You will be able to pay by credit or debit card or directly from your bank account if it is based in the US.
Hillary Medal On the occasion of the Rolwaling Conference, Mountain Legacy will present the second Hillary Medal "for remarkable service in the conservation of culture and nature in remote mountainous regions." Nominations are now being accepted; the deadline for complete dossiers is September 29, 2006.
The Sir Edmund Hillary Medal is sponsored by
Architects Without Frontiers (AWF), a not-for-profit organization based in Australia. AWF aims to assist in the rebuilding of cities and communities in need, irrespective of their race, religion, gender or political affiliation. AWF currently provides design and construction services in Nepal, Bosnia-Herzegovina, East Timor, Australia, Sri Lanka and Afghanistan. Please see AWF’s Web site for additional information: www.architectswithoutfrontiers.com.au
Call for Participants This conference is intended for tourism planners and professionals; researchers; anyone with an interest in Rolwaling Valley, tourism development, mountain studies. Proposals for papers, displays, or other presentations on pertinent topics are welcome.
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Contact
Seth Sicroff, sicroff@gmail.com
Program Coordinator, Mountain Legacy
Dr. Beau Beza
Chair, Hillary Medal Selection Committee
Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology University
School of Global Studies, Social
Science and Planning
Environment and
Planning Unit
Melbourne, Australia
Email: beau.beza@rmit.edu
Kumar P Mainali
Arjun Adhikari
Editors, Himalayan Journal of Sciences
The Rolwaling Conference is organized in collaboration with the Mount Everest Summiteers Club of Rolwaling
