Podcasts: Culture By Region

Two Middle East experts debate the future for the region in the latest of our podcasts from the 2009 Cambridge Festival of Ideas - On the panel are two Middle East experts: Anoush Ehteshami and Dr Glen Rangwala.

In this podcast, Ben Ayers, the founder of Porter Progress (an NGO that supports Nepal's mountain porters and their families), discusses how the Khumbu region of Nepal (on the trek to Mount Everest) has been modernized and transformed in recent years, and the challenges that this presents to Sherpa culture and society.