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The Hard Road to Everest

Mountaineering talk by Doug Scott CBE & Paul ‘Tut’ Braithwaite

As part of the Huddersfield Climbing Festival celebrating the 3rd Birthday of the Huddersfield Climbing Centre, legendary mountaineers Doug Scott CBE and Paul 'Tut' Braithwaite give a fascinating and humorous give an evening talk at the climbing wall, providing an insight into how their colourful careers developed from early youth - including temporary careers teaching geography and painting and decorating - to Everest in 1975.

The event – also on the 3rd anniversary of the second devastating Nepal Earthquake of 2015 - will include a sale of Nepalese goods, cards and posters and will be followed by an auction of signed framed mountaineering prints, all supporting the post-earthquake reconstruction work of Community Action Nepal a UK-based registered charity founded by Doug in 1995, which aims to help mountaineers support the mountain people of Nepal. Doug will also be signing copies of award-winning Up And About, volume 1 of his autobiography, and ‘The Ogre- Biography of a mountain and the dramatic story of the first ascent’.

This talk follows The Festival of Routes, a day of sponsored climbing between 10 am and 6 pm. 

Cost:  £1 per person per route payable on the day - will include: flash-18 summer bouldering  competition Round 1 (score cards £1); leading ladder competition - with prizes (one day competition); knotted rope climb, and raffle. All donations from the day will go towards Community Action Nepal.

Date & time for the evening talk: Saturday 12May 2018 at 7.00 pm. 

Venue: Huddersfield Climbing Centre, Spring Grove Street, Huddersfield, HD1 4BP. 

Tickets: £15 general admission / £13 concessions (group of 10+; 65+; U18; student) on sale from the Huddersfield Climbing Centre reception /  01484 766269.  Or book on-line https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-hard-road-to-everest-by-doug-scott-paul-...