Dawn Hollis: Mountains Before Mountaineering
Dawn Hollis' talk tells a different story of intrepid travellers who climbed peaks and passes with fear and delight.
About Dawn Hollis: Mountains Before Mountaineering
| 28th January 2026 | |
| 7.30pm - 9pm | |
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Kyle Academy Kyle Academy Overmills Road, Ayr KA7 3LR |
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| £15 for general admission. Free for RSGS Members, Students and U18s. | |
| Visit the event website here | |
| Facebook information can be found here |
Mountains today, to many, are spaces of amateur adventure and challenge. Yet what came before? For many years historians have described the premodern era as one in which mountains were treated as spaces to be feared and avoided. Dawn’s talk tells a different story of intrepid travellers who climbed peaks and passes with fear and delight; of the ‘real mountaineers’ who carved out a living up and down the mountain slopes; and of scientists who looked at mountains and tried to answer enormous questions about the origins of the world. Together these inspiring people tell of a time before mountains were places to be conquered or commercialised.
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