Daniel Light – The White Ladder: Triumph and Tragedy at the Dawn of Mountaineering
Dan will be introducing his new book, ‘The White Ladder: Triumph and Tragedy at the Dawn of Mountaineering’. Described as ‘a beautifully written and sure-footed history of mountaineering ‘before Everest’, full of wonderful stories and spanning continents and centuries’, he will take you on a panoramic journey through the history of mountaineering,
We meet devout Incan priests who, scaling the Andes’ icy slopes, Gurkha riflemen who canvassed the Karakoram, and the tweed-clad mountaineers who made the first serious assaults on Everest, hauling yards upon yards of battered rope through the ice, and many more. The White Ladder is an ode to mountains’ capacity to enthral, and the fundamental human drive to climb higher and higher.
Daniel will be in conversation with Kate Nicholson, climber and author of Behind Everest: Ruth Mallory’s Story.
