Stephen Venables
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Stephen Venables is a British mountaineer and writer, and is a past president of the South Georgia Association and of the Alpine Club. He is the first Briton to ascend the summit of Mount Everest with
Stephen Venables speaking at the Royal Geographical Society Everest 24 lecture, May 2024
Alpine Club (UK)
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The Alpine Club was founded in London on 22 December 1857 and is the world's first mountaineering club. The primary focus of the club is to support mountaineers who climb in the Alps and the Greater R
Stephen Venables
…Stephen Venables (born 2 May 1954) is a British mountaineer and writer, and is a past president of the South Georgia Association and of the Alpine Club. He is the first Briton to ascend the summit of Mount Everest without bottled oxygen. In 1988, Venables became the first Briton to ascend the summit…
Title page from Peaks, Passes, and Glaciers, 1859, edited by John Ball, first president of the Alpine Club