Climbing Everest with Bentley Beetham Public Talk
8 June 2024 - 8 June 2024
11:00AM - 12:00PM
Elvet Hill House 009
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Free
Eternal Ascent exhibition guest curator Stephen Livingstone will recreate Bentley Beetham’s famous lantern slide lecture about the Mount Everest 1924 Expedition using photographs from the Bentley Beetham Collection and words taken from a series of articles written for the Sunday Sun newspaper. Free to attend and open to all.
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Black and white photograph from the Bentley Beetham Collection of the 1924 Everest Expedition
Bentley Beetham delivered his annual talk to staff and pupils of Barnard Castle School up until his retirement from teaching in 1949 when his boxes of lantern slides were abandoned in a cupboard.
Stephen’s presentation is a unique opportunity to dust off the slides and share the experience of Beetham’s epic trek across the plains of Tibet to within touching distance of the summit of Mount Everest.