Mountain man Doug’s Perth date
A legendary mountaineer will be talking in Perth next month.
Doug Scott will be at the Everest Inn on Tuesday, November 26 to give his talk‘Hard Road to Everest’.
In 1975, Doug became one of the first Britons to reach the summit of Mount Everest by scaling the southwest face.
He had to overcome a lack of oxygen and missing sleeping bags in the snow during his epic ascent.
A spokesperson for the event said: “Legendary mountaineer Doug Scott will give a fascinating insight into how a lad born in Nottingham during the darkest days of World War II got into climbing on the Black Rocks in Derbyshire - aided with nothing but his mother’s clothes line, and how this led him to Everest in 1975.
“At dusk on September 24, Doug and Dougal Haston became the first Britons to reach the summit of Everest as lead climbers on Chris Bonington’s epic expedition to the mountain’s south-west face.
“As darkness fell they scraped a small cave in the snow 100 metres below the summit and survived the highest bivouac ever - without bottled oxygen, sleeping bags and, as it turned out, frostbite.
“For Doug Scott, it was the fulfilment of a fortune teller’s prophesy given to his mother - that her eldest son would be in danger in a high place with the whole world watching.
“Scott went on to become one of Britain’s greatest ever mountaineers, pioneering new climbs in the remotest corners of the globe.”
The talk starts at 6.30pm and tickets cost £25, including a two-course buffet dinner, on 01738 622563.