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Mountaineer and writer Stephen Venables has had an extraordinary life of adventure, which famously included his lonesome, costly (in frozen toes) night near the top of Everest after succeeding as the first Briton to summit the mountain without supplementary oxygen in 1988. South Georgia will forever be associated with Sir Ernest Shackleton's extraordinary story of survival. In 2000 Stephen Venables followed Shackleton's route and this illustrated talk weaves together elements of his 1990 expedition in a glorious combination of mountain, sea and wildlife. Presented by the Royal Geographical Society.