Everest: East Side Story | Stephen Venables Lecture to the Alpine Club
In the centenary year of the first Everest expedition, the Alpine Club welcomed Stephen Venables to its lecture hall to open a special commemorative exhibition: 'Everest by Those Who Were There'.
The lecture Stephen gave, entitled 'Everest: East Side Story' intertwined his own personal Everest journey with the wider story of the world's highest mountain and, in particular, those early 1920s expeditions.
As the first Briton to climb Everest without the use of supplemental Oxygen and as a student of mountaineering history, Stephen is uniquely placed to reflect on the climbing world's relationship with the mountain after 100 years of exploration on its slopes. Packed with personal anecdotes, historical curiosities and some of Stephen's fantastic photography, the lecture provides a fully Reithian experience - informing, educating and entertaining in equal measure.
We are hugely indebted to our Honorary Librarian Barbara Grigor-Taylor who curated the exhibition, to John Porter for handling the introductions, Derek Buckle for the questions, to Timothy Taggart who produced this film and to Stephen for such an impressive talk.
If you'd like to learn more about the early Everest expeditions, copies of the exhibition catalogue are still available to purchase via the Alpine Club website - bit.ly/3w68fiV and a virtual tour of the exhibition is available to view on our KZread channel - bit.ly/3nznYTv
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This lecture is extraordinary. Venables is a great storyteller and to hear him talk about this incredible 4 man effort to climb the Kangshung Face of Everest, in what is undoubtedly one of the greatest and toughest ascents and routes ever undertaken on Earth's highest mountain, is simply mesmerizing. My only "complaint" is that it could be at least twice as long, with all the details left out here due to the time constraints. However, if you want/need to hear more about this amazing expedition, as I did, pick up Venables' Everest: Alone at the Summit and Webster's Snow in the Kingdom. Both are excellent. To further emphasize what an important and fascinating talk this is, and the sheer gravity of what the Alpine Club represents and its legendary members, Sir Chris Bonington stands at the end and gives Stephen the ultimate compliment. I can't help but wonder who else was in the room this evening. Marvelous stuff! Thanks for sharing!
Exceptional program, thank you for posting this. Stephen is a special talent and gifted presenter. I truly enjoyed it!
Wonderful presentation. Such a nostalgic genre.
Excellent talk and thanks to the AC for providing it to those of us who can't make it to the actual event.
Brilliant Lecture, Thanks for putting it online for someone that couldn't make it to the talk itself.
A wonderful lecture. I particularly enjoyed the reverence Stephen has for the trailblazers of the 20's and 30's, so much, in fact, that it makes up the bulk of his talk. Everest past, present and future combined in an inviting and illuminating telling.
I really enjoyed this. Stephen is a wonderful story teller.
@Alpine_Club
Жыл бұрын
Thanks for watching. We couldn't agree more!
Great stuff Stephen, an epic story and well told
Thank you Stephen, really enjoyed and learned from your splendid talk
Fantastic talk Stephen, really great.
Thank you.
Thank you. Great presentation.
Awesome.
Legends an heroes in that room
what a great adventure and achievement! to climb MotherGoddes from its beyul!! thank you for making it real and the lecture)
I really enjoyed this video, very informative and entertaining
@Alpine_Club
2 жыл бұрын
Thanks Stephen.
excellent viewing
Very interesting. I was wondering, how come you folks never include any of the stories of the sherpas? I think that their stories would be just as or even more interesting since they live there and probably were surprized that anyone would want to climb those mountians.
@Nursie
Жыл бұрын
I completely agree!!! I love hearing from the Sherpas!! They are completely bad ass😊
Bodies are starting to build up on K-2 now!
East Side Story begins at 36:57.
*Excellent script - but, audio too weak.Greetingd from sunny tropical THAILAND*
In my school we played fives without the gloves.
It'd be interesting if Mallory summited Everest.I'm not 100% sure Hillary/Norgay reached the peak.[ lack of proper photographic evidence ].
Sound is far too quiet
@Huwtube72
2 жыл бұрын
Try turning your volume up.
@olddirtydoggy
2 жыл бұрын
@@Huwtube72 Patronizing me will get you nowhere. The gain is far too quiet on the vid, turning it up distorts the sound and makes it sound like the microphone is inside your mouth. Before replying with a sarcastic comment, review your vid and see if there is a sound issue. Just be greatful I bothered to offer feedback.
@Huwtube72
2 жыл бұрын
@@olddirtydoggy It didn’t distort when I turned up my volume to make Stephen’s voice at a comfortable level. It sounds like you probably need to invest in some better audio equipment.
@olddirtydoggy
2 жыл бұрын
@@Huwtube72 OK, sent the vid link to a mate of mine and asked him if he noticed anything about the vid. First thing he said was the sound was too quiet.
@Huwtube72
2 жыл бұрын
@@olddirtydoggy But if you turn the volume up the signal is clean, perfectly audible and undistorted without background noise becoming an issue (since there isn’t any). Therefore I can’t see what the problem is. It is true that the audio level is a tad on the low side and could have been set a notch or two higher, but by turning up the volume we can deal with this quite easily.
Cannot hear this.
@Alpine_Club
11 ай бұрын
Sound is good for me - with a bit volume up but without any strong boost. I don't think the problem is on our side. Please check if your sound is working on other YouYube videos; if so then I don't have any good suggestions. Sorry. - Michael (AC)
@somjasa
9 ай бұрын
Volume at max still audio low.
sad i could not hear what he was saying!!!
67 years old and attempting a K2 summit? I would question if that was a sensible thing to do but I guess at least he died doing what he loved.
Don't comment. You don't know
@jonschlottig9584
Жыл бұрын
You don't know
@sawspitfire422
Жыл бұрын
But how do you know I don't know? You don't know if I know or not