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Johan Reinhard will get Hillary Medal on 11 Dec

Johan Reinhard will get Hillary Medal on 11 Dec

Kathmandu, Dec 8 (UNI) This year’s Sir Edmund Hillary Mountain Legacy Medal has gone to Johan Reinhard, an Explorer-in-Residence at the National Geographic Society, world-acclaimed explorer and anthropologist who has done important work on the Incas in Peru as well as in the sacred ‘beyul’ valleys of Tibetan Buddhism in Nepal.
The Hillary Medal will be conferred to Reinhard on 11 December in Pokhara Mountain Museum to coincide with International Day of Mountains, according to a report published in the Nepali Times.
He is also returning to Nepal to continue his earlier research into hunter-gatherer groups.

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