In the centenary year of the first Everest expedition, the Alpine Club welcomed Stephen Venables to its lecture hall to open a special commemorative exhibition: 'Everest by Those Who Were There'.
The lecture Stephen gave, entitled 'Everest: East Side Story' intertwined his own personal Everest journey with the wider story of the world's highest mountain and, in particular, those early 1920s expeditions.
As the first Briton to climb Everest without the use of supplemental Oxygen and as a student of mountaineering history, Stephen is uniquely placed to reflect on the climbing world's relationship with the mountain after 100 years of exploration on its slopes. Packed with personal anecdotes, historical curiosities and some of Stephen's fantastic photography, the lecture provides a fully Reithian experience - informing, educating and entertaining in equal measure.
We are hugely indebted to our Honorary Librarian Barbara Grigor-Taylor who curated the exhibition, to John Porter for handling the introductions, Derek Buckle for the questions, to Timothy Taggart who produced this film and to Stephen for such an impressive talk.
If you'd like to learn more about the early Everest expeditions, copies of the exhibition catalogue are still available to purchase via the Alpine Club website - bit.ly/3w68fiV and a virtual tour of the exhibition is available to view on our KZitem channel - bit.ly/3nznYTv
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