Doug Scott CBE

Autumn 2015 will mark the 40th anniversary of the first ascent of ‘Everest: The Hard Way’, when the late Dougal Haston and Doug Scott made the first ascent of the mountain’s massive South West Face. In this special lecture Doug will tell of the epic expedition and climb, how his life led up to this defining moment and where it took him upon his return from the summit.

This is a brand new lecture for the anniversary, lavishly illustrated with Doug’s celebrated mountain photography and will provide a very personal account of this legendary first ascent.

Reinhold Messner (the first man to climb Everest without bottled oxygen) commented on Doug’s climb ‘After Doug and Dougal climbed the South West Face and survived their night in the snow hole just below the summit, I knew the mountain could be climbed without oxygen.’