TEDxSalford - Stephen Venables - To The Top: The Story of Everest

Stephen Venables is a mountaineer, writer and broadcaster who prefers the untrodden path -- he is the first Briton to have climbed Mount Everest without supplementary oxygen. Nearly all his Himalayan expeditions have been to previously unclimbed peaks. In the case of Everest, others had been there first, so he climbed a new route, without oxygen equipment, and established a new altitude record for surviving a night out in the open. He has published twelve books, taken part in numerous television films and has just returned from his third crossing of South Georgia -- on this occasion following other steps -- Sir Ernest Shackleton's. He has a horror of committee meetings, but couldn't refuse the invitation to be president of the world's oldest mountaineering association, the Alpine Club, during its recent 150th anniversary.

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