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Women at altitude
In 1975, Junko Tabei climbed Everest, the first woman to reach its summit. 50 years on, join the Mount Everest Foundation to celebrate her ascent and discover the rarely told stories of extraordinary pioneering women in the Himalayas and beyond.
Jan Morris on Everest
Paul Clements will describe the conversations he had with Jan about her involvement in the 1953 Everest Expedition.
Behind Everest: Ruth Mallory’s story
This talk will explore Ruth Mallory's story, wife of Everest climber George, and a founder member of the Pinnacle Club, the first all female rock climbing club in Britain.
Labour in the lofty peaks: porters in the Everest expeditions (1921-1938) - Nokmedemla Lemtur
This talk recounts the contribution of the porters in the mountaineering expeditions, and explores the possibilities of how a history of their participation can be drawn out through such archival materials.
Journey to Everest - Simon Dell
Simon talks of his treking across the Himalayan plateau and of his first visit to Nepal when few western visitors entered the country.
It’s not about the view - Tori James
Have you ever wondered what it is like to stand on the summit of Mount Everest? What does it take to get to the top?
Recording the first Everest expeditions
The centenary of the first Everest expeditions gives us an opportunity to reflect on the role of local knowledge and resources that facilitated the climbs and how the expeditions were documented and recorded.
Going to extremes: climbing Mount Everest to measure the weather - Dr Tom Matthews
Hear why the climate at the roof of the world matters so much, from the team that just installed a weather station on top of Everest.
Everest on film: scientific endeavour meets media culture
Join Jan Faull for an illustrated talk discussing the production, technology and presentation of films made on successive Everest expeditions between 1922 and 1953.
George Mallory and the Everest expeditions of the 1920s - Eugene Rae
A look at the background to the British attempts to climb Mount Everest in the 1920s and at the expeditions of 1921, 1922 and 1924. Illustrated by archives, artefacts and photographs from the Collections of the Society.
Spectre expedition Q&A - Leo Houlding and Sir Chris Bonington
World-renowned climber and alpinist, Leo has led major expeditions and hard first ascents on every continent from El Capitan to Everest and from the Amazon to Antarctica. He has produced multiple award winning films of these expeditions taking modern action sports to the most remote corners of Earth.
One man's Everest
One of the world’s leading high-altitude climbers shares his personal stories of a lifetime of mountaineering, including the Himalayan Triple Crown in 2013, and what drives him to do it.