Catherine Moorehead reads two extracts regarding the expedition, undertaken by Pete Boardman, Joe Tasker, Doug Scott and Dick Renshaw.
The first, from her biography of Doug Scott, ‘Mountain Guru’, gives an overall account of the trip.
The second is taken from Joe Tasker’s ’Savage Arena’ and describes in vivid detail, how in a later attempt on the mountain, after Doug had departed, the three of them were avalanched during the night in their tent. An epic from which they were lucky to survive.