Doug Scott CBE

Doug Scott’s mountaineering highpoint was the first ascent of Everest by its South West Face – but his greatest adventure was undoubtedly his first ascent, accident and then escape from The Ogre. This is an epic tale of hard climbing and survival that has now become part of mountaineering folklore.

The Ogre (7,285 m) is the most difficult of the world’s high mountains to climb. In 1977 Doug Scott and Chris Bonington made the first ascent after a sequence of very difficult rock climbing that extended the boundaries of what had been achieved before at that altitude. The subsequent descent, in the dark, immediately became an epic. It was 24 years before there was a second ascent of The Ogre.

Proceeds from this lecture series will go towards Doug Scott’s charity Community Action Nepal , as part of their reconstruction programme following the recent Nepalese earthquake.