Kenton Cool at the Quay
Dec. 9th, 2014 10:21 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sawylMy course finished half an hour early today, so I dashed home and went for a run before hurrying down to the Quay to meet R for supper. We had a nice chat while the place filled up with people in to hear Kenton Cool talking about last year's ascents of Nuptse, Evereset and Lhotse — the triple crown — which he managed without returning to base camp.
E arrived just as R was heading home and we went down to sit on the floor for the rest of the evening. The talk was really excellent, with just the right balance of humour and seriousness, and there was a good turnout with the raffle ticket numbers ending well over a hundred. Not only do I now appreciate just how amazing it is, but I know that Yuichiro Miura skied down Everest and also summitted it in 2013 aged 80. I also now know about David Breashears' amazing Rivers of Ice photographic project, that lets you zoom right in to huge photos of the mountains as well as comparing recent pictures of the glaciers with those taken in the 1920s.
An extremely enjoyable evening...
E arrived just as R was heading home and we went down to sit on the floor for the rest of the evening. The talk was really excellent, with just the right balance of humour and seriousness, and there was a good turnout with the raffle ticket numbers ending well over a hundred. Not only do I now appreciate just how amazing it is, but I know that Yuichiro Miura skied down Everest and also summitted it in 2013 aged 80. I also now know about David Breashears' amazing Rivers of Ice photographic project, that lets you zoom right in to huge photos of the mountains as well as comparing recent pictures of the glaciers with those taken in the 1920s.
An extremely enjoyable evening...
