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Announcing Our Next Program
Coming on November 7

Sacred Mountains: 
The Heights of Inspiration

With Edwin Bernbaum
Mountaineer, Scholar, Photographer

Edwin's sponsor is
Gabriel Campbell, WACSC Program Committee

About the Program

When the election is over, it's time to shift gears!

From the Andes to the Himalayas, mountains have an extraordinary power to evoke a sense of the sacred. Let Edwin Berbaum take us on a breathtaking and emotionally impactful photographic journey revealing how mountains from Ecuador to Nepal and from China to Greece have left their powerful imprint on the mythologies, religions, literature and art of cultures around the world. Drawing on personal experiences and research for his award-winning book Sacred Mountains of the World, Ed will show us the profound ways in which mountains embody our highest values and aspirations.  As an experienced mountaineer, Ed will also share with us the spiritual side of climbing. Climbing Mt. Everest may not be in everyone's wheelhouse, but we can all learn from, be inspired by, and enjoy tagging along vicariously with Ed as he climbs, contemplates, and photographs these majestic monuments of our world. 

About Our Speaker

Edwin Bernbaum, Ph.D., is a mountaineer and scholar of comparative religion and mythology whose work focuses on the relationship between culture and nature. The first edition of Sacred Mountains of the World won a gold medal from the Commonwealth Club of California was the basis for an exhibit of his photographs at the Smithsonian Institution and the American Museum of Natural History. 

He has been a keynote speaker for the Smithsonian, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and for the National Geographic Society.   Edwin is featured in “Beyond the Mountaintops: Extraordinary Mountaineers, Extraordinary People,” about eight climbers who have pioneered advances in climbing and humankind. He played a leading role in an international project to get China, Nepal, and India to nominate Mount Kailas in Tibet, considered the most sacred mountain in the world, and the pilgrimage routes leading to it, as a multi-national protected trans-boundary UNESCO World Heritage Site.

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World Affairs Council
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