Alpine Club member and former Editor of the Himalayan Journal Harish Kapadia has, over a period of nearly two decades, conducted interviews with many notable figures from the world of mountaineering.
In 2023, Kapadia formally made a gift of these recordings to the Alpine Club Library. From December 2023 onwards, we will be releasing these interviews once a week via our KZread channel so that they can be enjoyed by mountain-enthusiasts throughout the world. Episodes will release on Thursday mornings UK time.
This episode, recorded in February 2008, features Aamir Ali (1824-2018), a climber, author and honorary member of the Himalayan Club. The pair discuss Mr Ali's youth in Japan and India, his first trekking trips to the Greater Ranges in the 1940s, his first ascent of Mrigthumi, his move to Geneva to work for the International Labour Organisation (ILO) and his passion for literature.
The Alpine Club Library holds a wealth of mountaineering material to which we are very pleased to add these recordings. You can learn more about the Alpine Club Library, and the Alpine Club more generally, via our website: www.alpineclub.org/