Our lecturers are well known explorers, mountaineers, travel writers, TV personalities, adventure sports personalities or anyone who has an epic story to tell and can enthral our audience with a rattling good yarn. The talks are invariably illustrated with slides and/or film.
Helen Sharman CMG OBE - 15/09/2021 19:30
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Helen will describe her personal journey from research chemist to becoming the first British astronaut. She will talk about her training, learning Russian, living in Star City, the launch and landing, how weightlessness feels, her scientific experiments, the team spirit, and readjusting to life back on Earth. She enthuses and inspires her audience about Space, STEM and the wonders of science. Helen’s presentation includes slides, many of which she took herself on MIR and during her training.
Peter Habeler - 09/12/2021 19:30
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Habeler and Messner were an inseparable duo, climbing many 8000m peaks without supplemental oxygen, including Cho Oyu, Nanga Parbat, Kanchenjunga, Hidden Peak and Everest, on May 8th 1978, an achievement that had been previously thought impossible.
Peter founded the Peter Habeler Ski and Mountaineering School in his hometown of Mayrhofen, Austria. In 1999 he was granted the title “Professor” by the Austrian Government.
Peter will talk about the highlights of his long Alpine life, including the hardest routes in the Dolomites, fast ascents of the North faces of the Eiger, Matterhorn and other peaks and, naturally, the ascent of Mt. Everest he made with Reinhold Messner. Peter is still climbing hard, 2 years ago, aged 77, he climbed the Eiger North face in winter again and 3 months ago he ascended the north face of the Cime Grande.