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.
In this episode, (the first of two parts), Harish interviews Nicholas Clinch (1930-2016), the successful American mountaineer and former President of the American Alpine Club. The pair cover Clinch's expedition career, including his ascents of Masherbrum, Gasherbrum I and Antarctica's Mount Vinson, while also touching on his climbs in Yosemite, his experiences in the US Air Force and his tangential role in the first traverse of Everest.
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/