Lectures

Here is a list of lectures at the Alpine Club. Select additional pages using the numbers at the bottom.

The lectures provide a good opportunity for AC members to meet one another and exchange news, views and information. New members and prospective members are particularly welcome. Prospective members are asked to contact the AC office before attending. Lectures generally start at 7:30pm.

For the lectures in London, non-members are asked to register their attendance in advance either by filling in the relevant form on the lecture page or by contacting the office at admin@alpineclub.org (Please note that a donation is requested on entry).

Anyone who has had an interesting trip and would be prepared to lecture is invited to contact the AC Office or the lecture organisers.

Each event includes a clickable map with the address of the venue.

Events Calendar

Brian Hall: High Risk - Climbing to Extinction
Thursday 05 October 2023, 07:30pm
Thursday 05 October 2023

Brian tells the story of climbing through the 1970’s and 80’s, looking particularly at his memories of eleven friends with whom he climbed: Alan Rouse, Paul Nunn, Joe Tasker, Pete Thexton, Georges Bettembourg, Mike Geddes, Alex MacIntyre, John Whittle, John Syrett, Sam Cochrane and Roger Baxter-Jones.

Starting with rock climbing at Leeds University and progressing to the hard game of mountaineering in Scotland and the Alps in winter, Patagonia and the Andes. He then went to Nepal on expeditions to Jannu, Nuptse, Everest in winter, Ogre 2 and K2.

Brian asks why they took such risks and remembers these friends with fondness, celebrating their achievements and looking back at a very different world than today. An epoch that marked the change from heavyweight expeditions to fast and light alpine style. They thought it was a safer way to climb but in the end the statistics show otherwise.

Brian’s book of the same name won the Boardman Tasker Award for Mountain Literature in 2022.

John Whittle traversing steep snow on Cerro Standhardt, Patagonia
© Brian Hall
 
Venue:  The Greta Suite of the Skiddaw Hotel, Main Street, Keswick, CA12 5BL.  
 
Lectures are free to members.  Non-members are welcome to attend for a suggested £3 donation to the Montane Alpine Club Climbing Fund.
 
Doors Open7pm.
Lectures start: 7.30pm.
 
Food is available before the lecture from the hotel bar. 
Location Keswick
31 Main St
Keswick
Cumbria
CA12 5BN