Mountains of Greece

Peak Pursuits Jason König and Jonathan Westaway interview Caroline Schaumann about her work on mountaineering history.

New podcast! Talking with Caroline Schaumann about Humboldtian science in the mountains - feeling, failure, and queer sensibilities + 19th C. mountaineering in print, archive and film #EnvHist #Mountaineering #Alps #Andes
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Kronion Stand on the summit of the mountain of Kronos, with the Olympic stadium at your feet.

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Kotilion Go up into goat territory to see some neglected temples, and get a view of the Temple of Apollo at Bassae from above.

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Summit Positions Jason König and Jonathan Westaway interview Peter Hansen about his research on the Alps and Himalayas.

New podcast! Talking with @peterhhansen.bsky.social sky.social about how #mountaineering & #modernity emerged together & how the idea of the 'summit position' came to encompass concepts of sovereignty and empire from the #Alps to #Everest shorturl.at/oI5fh #EnvHist #EnvHums
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Seems like a task for the global #EnvHist community: suggest talk series for ICEHO's new page! We nominate the new podcast "Mountain Stories, Mountain Futures" and the Edge Effects podcast!

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Hymettos 2 Find the sanctuary of Zeus Ombrios high up on Mount Hymettos, and discover some alphabetic dedications.

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New podcast! We talk to historian of science
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बाउ को धुरी छैन “Father Has No Roof over his head”

An #OtherEverests #ConfluenceCollective exhibition in Kalimpong 21-27 February 2026 shorturl.at/YrbVv

Lost archives & hidden histories of Indigenous high-altitude workers from the 1920s & 1930s.

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Parnassos (Liakoura) Climb up to the Liakoura summit to encounter humans born from rocks, and an ancient mountain rescue.

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Oiti Enter into a landscape of suffering on Mount Oiti, ancient bandit country and scene of the agonies of Herakles.

I was very lucky to have the chance to go up to the Pyre of Herakles site on Mount Oiti in north-west Greece back in October—we were in thick mist, but it’s still a very evocative site (link to post below!)

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Latest podcast! We talk to Simone Kenyon, choreographer + artistic creator of the place-sensitive performance piece Into the Mountain, inspired by the lyrical & embodied prose of Nan Shepherd’s 1974 book #Cairngorms
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The Mountain Stories, Mountain Futures podcast launched recently. Check out their first episode, "Xenophobic Mountains" with Alexandra Cotofana: 🔗 msmf.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/2025/12/17/x...

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Join us for our first podcast! We talk with the amazing Alexandra Cotofana about landscape sentience in the Romanian Carpathians and the concept of xenophobic mountains.
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Kallidromos Stroll through the meadows of Mount Kallidromos, in the footsteps of the Persians at the Battle of Thermopylae.

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Kithairon Wander up past tortoises and wind turbines to the place of sacrificial fire on the summit of Mount Kithairon.

I hadn't realised until recently that you can see the summit of Mount Kithairon from the centre of Athens. That must have been all the more the case with a huge column of smoke rising up (if Pausanias is right about sacrifices on the summit).

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Olympus (Agios Antonios) Visit the Agios Antonios peak, place of sacrifice and site of the most important archaeological finds on Olympus

I think the archaeological finds from the Agios Antonios summit of Mount Olympus are not very well known...--evidence of an ash altar and cult of Zeus. Thanks to Cynthia Marti for this post with all the details and a great hiking route!

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Parnitha (Cave of Pan) Clamber down to the Cave of Pan on western Parnitha, in the footsteps of the late antique pilgrim Nikagoras.

One of the amazing things about visiting the Cave of Pan on Parnitha is knowing that you are in the footsteps of others: late antique worshippers of Pan and nineteenth-century travellers who have left accounts of their visits...

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Penteli Get up close to the ancient quarries of Mount Penteli, and to Pausanias’ vision of Greece as a network of marble.

Updated Penteli post here, now with photos!

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Parnitha (Koromilia) Fight your way through the undergrowth up to the Koromilia peak of Parnitha, and meet one of Alciphron’s parasites.

Interesting to walk in west Parnitha (ancient Mount Parnes, north of Athens) a couple of weeks ago. It's very overgrown after the 2023 fires. Walking on these paths and helping to keep them open is an act of heritage preservation in itself...

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Penteli Get up close to the ancient quarries of Mount Penteli, and to Pausanias’ vision of Greece as a network of marble.

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Hymettos Experience the light on Mount Hymettos, and in Ovid’s version of the story of Procris and Cepahalus.

New post: a sunset route on Mount Hymettos!

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Menalo Head up into the secluded forests of Menalo from Stemnitsa for a glimpse of the territory of Pan and Artemis.

New post on Mount Menalo today, including the amazing image of Pan in Callimachus' Hymn to Artemis!:

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Helikon (Paliovouna) Wind your way up through the hellebore plants in the place where they were harvested in antiquity, on the western peak of Mount Helikon.

Thanks to Maria Christodoulou for this week's guest post. Amazing to see the hellebore still growing in the same place several millennia later!

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🔔 Event reminder!

🗻 Conference | Mountains of Greece: Heritage narratives from the past for a sustainable future
📆 22-24 October 2025
❗ fully booked in-person
🌐 online registration still available: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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Paperback version just out!

Divine Summits exhibition Divine Summits: The Cultural Lives of Mediterranean Mountains’ at the Wardlaw Museum in St Andrews (30 September – 16 November 2025).

Exciting to be able to advertise the newly opened Divine Summits exhibition at the Wardlaw Museum in St Andrews, curated by St A. students Carla Longo and Victoria Jackson. You can explore the exhibition website if you can't make it in person!

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Olympus (Mytikas) Scramble up over the rocks to Mytikas, highest summit in Greece, and see where Hephaistos fell to earth.

New post on Mytikas, highest summit of Olympus!

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Parnassos (Corycian Cave) Take the path that Pausanias walked on from Delphi up to the Corycian Cave, place of worship and refuge.

Thanks to Callisto Lodwick for today's post on the Corycian Cave in the foothills of Parnassos.

It's a beautiful hike up from Delphi. It takes you up to an ancient place of worship that's very different from the sanctuary of Apollo down below!

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Artemisio Scramble up into the territory of Artemis on Mount Artemisio.

New post on Mount Artemision--specially recommended for Pausanias fans!

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Conference programme Mountains of Greece: Heritage Narratives from the Past for a Sustainable Future, Athens, 22-24 October 2025

Very excited to advertise the full programme and registration details for our Athens conference, 22-24 October 2025!

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