The association Memories of the Himalaya was created in 2022 on the initiative of Fernand Meyer and several beneficiaries of archives related to the Himalayan world (Nepal, Northen India, Bhutan and Tibet).
The objective of the association is to promote this important documentation relating to the Himalayan landscapes and cultures to all those interested in these regions, but also to ensure its transmission, in the best conditions, to future generations of researchers, students, enthusiasts and local communities.
The association contributes not only to the work of inventorying, reconditioning, identifying and reporting the documents, but also to their digitization and indexing by means of a database allowing a search on multiple criteria (keywords, location, year, etc.).
The implementation of an interface for consulting the digitized documents via the Internet is under development and will be available soon.
Memories of the Himalayas is part of a process, shared by other public or private institutions throughout the world, aiming to widely disseminate and promote unpublished documentary resources concerning the Himalayan regions.
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