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 Edwin Bernbaum
Doctor Edwin Bernbaum is Director of the Sacred Mountains
Program at The Mountain Institute, and a Research Associate at the
University of California at Berkeley. A Guarantor of Mountain
Wilderness International and a member of the World Commission on
Protected Areas of the World Conservation Union (IUCN), he
develops ways of taking the cultural and spiritual significance of
mountains into account in environmental programs. Bernbaum has
initiated a project in the United States to develop interpretive
and educational materials and activities for the National Park
Service based on the spiritual and cultural significance of
mountains. His award-winning book Sacred Mountains of the World
(University of California Press) was the basis for an exhibit of
his photography at the Smithsonian Institution. He is a frequent
lecturer on culture, art, religion, leadership, mountains,
mountaineering and the environment.
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