Bentley Beetham - Lakeland Climber, Everest Pioneer

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From Shepherd's Crag to Everest is a new talk by Stephen Livingstone and shines a spotlight on Bentley Beetham, one of the climbers featured in the Everest Revisited Exhibition in our Gallery.

Mountaineer and photographer Bentley Beetham began and ended his climbing career in the Lake District. His passion for mountains took him all over the world, most famously to Everest in 1924, but his heart lay in his beloved Borrowdale. Stephen Livingstone tells the story of this remarkable man using Beetham's own words and personal collection of photographs, reconstructing his popular lantern slide presentation given on his return from an adventure of a lifetime. This will include his friendships with Somervell, Wakefield, Mallory and Irvine.

Stephen Livingstone is an artist whose work principally deals with human impact upon landscapes and habitats. He recently curated Eternal Ascent, a highly successful exhibition for Durham University's Oriental Museum documenting the 1924 Mount Everest expedition in more than two hundred photographs selected from the Bentley Beetham Collection.

Tickets: £10 and £8

Running time: 2 hours (Lake District Connections (45 minutes) interval 15 minutes: Climbing Everest with Bentley Beetham ( 60 minutes).