About This Show
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.
“What on earth do you do after that?” is the usual question once you climb a new route up Everest, reaching the top alone and without oxygen. For Stephen Venables, that historic success was just a cue for different experiences – new Himalayan peaks, arctic dog-sledging, film-making, desert journeys and fifteen sailing voyages to the snow mountains of Antarctica. In this enchanting slideshow, Stephen will share the fun, excitement, beauty – and the personal tragedies – that make his life a continuing adventure.