After the meeting, John Porter will be giving a talk about his new book, One Day As A Tiger, which has just won the Grand Prize at the 2014 Banff Mountain Book Festival. The book is not only about the life and times of his climbing partner Alex MacIntyre, who was killed on Annapurna in 1982, but recalls a very exciting period of mountaineering; pioneering the shift away from the large scale expeditions of the 70s, towards a new, bold, lightweight and more dangerous, alpine style on 8,000m peaks.
