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First on Everest Edinburgh and First on Everest Glasgow

 Edinburgh and Glasgow will be the venue in November this year for a rare gathering of five elite climbers who made landmark ascents on Mount Everest over the last 50 years. For all that Everest in the 21st century seems to have been rendered the world’s highest tourist destination – the biggest tick on the planet – the mountain has been the stage for some of climbing’s greatest dramas and a testing ground for human spirit and endurance. The climbers, who will tell their stories at The Assembly Hall, Edinburgh and Glasgow Royal Concert Hall in November, have been its stars. It is fitting that Graham Tiso Mountain Shops should be selling the tickets as Graham Tiso was a valuable member of the 1972 South West Face Expedition.

Participants include Peter Habeler who broke the barrier of climbing Everest ‘unmasked’ without the aid of bottled oxygen, Doug Scott and Tut Braithwaite, both powerhouses on the 1975 expedition that scaled the mountain by its formidable South-West Face, Tom Hornbein who with fellow American Willi Unsoeld pioneered the long West Ridge and became the first to make a full traverse of Everest and Hamish MacInnes who was there in 1952 and back on the South West Face in 1972 twice  and in 1975 as Deputy Leader.

All profits will go to Community Action Nepal, a charity founded by Scott. Thus the climbers are giving something back to the country in which they lived their mountain dreams. The evenings will be introduced and hosted by legendary Scottish mountaineer Hamish MacInnes. MacInnes first visited Everest in 1952 and considered attempting the mountain using the abandoned camps from an earlier Swiss attempt!

Come and join Doug Scott and friends for an evening of great mountaineering tales!

Ticket price: £15