Everest climber to talk at four Ross dates
ROSS-SHIRE audiences will have the chance to hear acclaimed mountaineer and Everest conqueror, Doug Scott, speaking at four local dates.
Doug, who in 1975 became the first Englishman to climb Mount Everest, is embarking on a lecture tour in the Highlands as part of a bid to aid the Nepalese earthquake victims. It was on September 24, 1975, that Doug and Scots climber Dougal Haston reached the summit of Everest, making the first ascent of its south west face and becoming the first Britons to climb the world’s highest mountain by that route.
In his lecture The Three Peaks, Doug will tell of this game-changing climb on Everest and of scaling the world’s other highest peaks K2 and Kangchenjunga.
Doug said: "It is so often inferred by climbers who have not actually experienced Everest that it is not that special – how wrong is that assumption, since everyone I know that has been there has been quite changed by the experience, including myself. I look forward to sharing this and other important moments of my mountain life during my 2015 lecture tour."
The tour dates are:
Monday July 27 – Macphail Centre, Ullapool; Tuesday July 28 – Dingwall Town Hall; Wednesday July 29 – Applecross Village Hall; and Thursday July 30 – Kyle of Lochalsh Village Hall; all starting at 7pm.
Proceeds are to Community Action Nepal, a charity which Doug founded in 1998.
Following the tragic earthquake in Nepal at the end of April 2015, Doug started an appeal to raise £2 million as all 40 of the charity’s projects are in need of reconstruction. So far he has raised £500k.
