Stephen Venables to touch down in NZ soon

Hey folks
just a quick rave on the upcoming Stephens Venables national tour

For those not aleady in the know, NZAC will host one of the world’s most distinguished mountaineers when it welcomes British climber and author Stephen Venables to New Zealand in early September.

Venables, best known as the first British climber to summit Mt Everest without oxygen, and for his daring ascents of unclimbed Himalayan peaks, will do a series of presentations throughout the country. It’s pretty rare that a climber of this calibre visits New Zealand, rarer still that the public gets the opportunity to hear them speak!

Venables began his climbing career in the European Alps in the mid sixties. He went on the make eleven mountaineering expeditions to Asia over the next twelve years, racking up an astounding clutch of technical first ascents. Interspersed with his Asian climbing he fitted in expeditions to Peru and Bolivia, East Africa, Chile and South Georgia.

He wrote his first book ‘Painted Mountains’ in 1986, for which he won the Boardman Tasker Prize for Mountain Literature. Subsequent books, of which there have been eleven, have won the Grand Prize at the Banff International Mountain Festival and the King Albert Award. His ‘Himalayan Alpine Style’ is considered by many climbers to be the ‘bible’ of bold Himalayan climbing today. He recently published his long-awaited autobiography, ‘Higher than the Eagle Soars – A Path to Everest.’

Don’t miss this opportunity to hear Stephen speak! For dates and venues for his ‘Himalayan Odyssey’ Tour visit: http://alpineclub.org.nz/default/391