Everest East Side Story
Stephen Venables is a well-known mountaineer, writer, broadcaster and public speaker. The title of his talk refers to the rarely visited Kangshung Face of Everest, in Tibet, where Stephen and three companions pioneered a new route to the summit in 1988. Stephen will describe this in the context of the earliest Everest expeditions, including the 1921 exploration of the eastern and northern approaches, seventeen years after Younghusband’s brief and ill-advised invasion of Tibet and the first ascent in 1953. 2024 is the centenary of the 1924 Everest expedition when Mallory and Irvine disappeared near the summit.
Royal Philosophical Society of Glasgow 222nd Lecture Series
Date: Wednesday 24 January 2024
Time: 19:30 - 21:00
Venue: Sir Charles Wilson Building LT 201
Category: Public lectures
Speaker: Stephen Venables
Stephen Venables is a writer and mountaineer who was the first Briton to climb Mt Everest without the aid of supplementary oxygen. He is a former president of the the Alpine Club and of the South Georgia Association, having led ten expeditions to that sub-antarctic island. He has published twelve books and appeared in several television documentaries, most memorably climbing the Matterhorn in Victorian dress.