Upcoming Harvard lectures - Harvard Mountaineering Club

In one week:
Nasuh Mahruki, recipient of the prestigious Soviet "Snow-Leopard" climbing
award, will be speaking Tuesday, November 30 at 8pm in Emerson Hall 305.
Mr. Mahruki has completed the first Turkish ascents of K2, the Seven
Summits, and motorbiked from Turkey to Nepal and back. Check out
www.nasuhmahruki.com/?inc-witea.inc for more.


In two weeks:
Bjarne Holmes, of Harvard Medical School, will be presenting a show titled
'Adventures in Mountaineering: Tales From the Edge of Life' on Thursday
December 9 at 8pm in Emerson Hall 105. The show covers a big wall
expedition to Mt. Ketil in Greenland, an alpine expedition to Alpamayo in
Peru, and trips in Ecuador, Norway, and the Rockies.

Blue, thanks for the post. This Turkish fellow sounds like another Goran Kropp. Do you have a link to the HM Club's lecture series, or are they more impromptu than that?

Here is a link to a discussion about Kropp's exploits biking to and from and climbing Everest a few years ago.

http://outside.away.com/outside/magazine/200001/200001besttrips4.html

I go to Harvard... I've written emails to HMC a couple of times with no response...

HighHorse said:

I go to Harvard... I've written emails to HMC a couple of times with no response...

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Perhaps they are still celebrating their football season after the outing to Yale Bowl.

Here is the link to the Harvard Mountaineering Website: link

I hear about their lectures usually through announcements from the Harvard Outing Club, who have a listserv and own the "lower" Harvard Cabin near Pinkham Notch. They have info here