Infrastructuring Everest

What’s on offer?

Join us for a preview of Jolynna Sinanan's photography exhibition before it opens at the 2024 Kendal Mountain Festival.

The exhibition will introduce the background to Jolynna's ongoing study of high altitude guides and porters and the opportunities and challenges for their livelihoods in Everest's tourist industry, which has grown exponentially with the role of digital and social media.

What’s it about?

Through collaboration with high altitude trekking and mountaineering guides, images have been captured through research, tourist and smartphone photography in destinations along the trek to Everest Base Camp and on commercial mountaineering expeditions. The exhibition offers perspectives of changes to everyday life, aspirations and environmental knowledge. It is part of a long-term anthropological study of tourism, economic and social change across three generations of Everest workers.

Who’s leading the event?

Jolynna Sinanan, Lecturer in Digital Anthropology at the University of Manchester

Open to

Open to all

Of particular interest to

Anyone with pre-existing interest in Everest history, mountaineering or Nepal. People who have embarked on the Everest Base Camp Trek or visited Nepal as a tourist or are travel enthusiasts, and youth audiences studying geography and history.

Event Booking details

No need to book. The exhibition will be accessible during the Samuel Alexander Building's opening hours, between 9am-5pm.

ACCESSIBILITY: The accessible entrance for the venue is the South Entrance, which is located at the rear of the building. To help you plan your visit you can find information about the Samuel Alexander Building here.