Agassizhorn: Mountain of Shame (2018)
• December 5th, 2018 • 0h 27min
Documentary
Overview
In the Bernese Alps, the Agassizhorn peak memorialises Louis Agassiz – a controversial 19th-century scientist, who not only named the mountain after himself, but who claimed he had discovered the Ice Age and went on to become one of the century's most virulent, most influential racists.
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