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Big Wall Climbing - Doug Scott Illustrated Lecture
Friday 9th December 2011, 7.30pm Bangor University, North Wales. Tickets www.joe-brown.com Tel: 01286 870327
Sunday 11th December 2011, 7.30pm Mold, Theatr Clwyd, North Wales. Tickets Tel: 0845 330 3565
Best known for being the first British climber to summit Everest in 1975, Doug Scott is also an outstanding Big Wall climber including major ascents on the vertical and overhanging rock of the Dolomites, Norway, Yosemite, Patagonia, Baffin Island and the Himalaya.
In this globetrotting lecture, illustrated by Doug’s dramatic photography, you’ll hear how he went from climbing crags near his boyhood home in Nottingham using his mother’s washing line as a rope, to adventures on the mile high vertical granite of the Arctic’s Mount Asgard - without the washing line! His stories chart the changes in climbing styles over the last 40 years and feature a “who’s who” cast of climbing partners including Peter Habeler and Paul ‘Tut’ Braithwaite. Hold on tight……
More details from Community Action Nepal www.canepal.org.uk Tel: 01768 484842
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