26 Sep Telluride Library & Mountain Club: Kelvin Kent Talks All Things Everest & More, 10/2!
Join the Telluride Mountain Club in welcoming Kelvin Kent to town for a lively, informative talk and presentation about his adventures in the Himalaya. Kent has lived in and been to Nepal 17 times over a span of 55 years.
The FREE event takes place Thursday, October 2, Telluride Library.
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In the early 70s Kelvin Kent was a team member of Sir Chris Bonington’s climbs of the South Face of Annapurna and Southwest Face of Everest. He is also a keen historian of all things Everest and has put together a new presentation which combines the very early attempts on this mountain with his own experiences of the climb he made 53 years ago.
In addition to presenting his power point depicting the incredible conditions of his 1972 post monsoon Everest Southwest Face expedition, Kent will be showing archival pictures and a revealing a bit of early history about the earliest Everest expeditions, all from the Tibet side as Nepal was closed to climbing until 1950.
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Kelvin Kent, courtesy Green Valley News.
Kelvin Kent is a world traveler, mountaineer, British Gurkha officer, author, teacher, businessman, community leader and expedition logistics expert.
Kent grew up under German occupation in the British Channel island of Jersey. He organized several early small expeditions including a solo trek from Indian border to Tibetan border, also an overland vehicle expedition to Nepal via Europe, Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan and India.
Kent was also deputy leader of the British Trans Americas expedition which made the first ever complete traverse of the Americas from Alaska to Terra Del Fuego via the notorious Darien Gap. He climbed Kinnabalu in Sabah and Kilimanjaro in Tanzania and was a team member of Chris Bonington’s climbs on Annapurna South Face and Everest Southwest Face.
Kelvin Kent now lives in Montrose. His daughter, Melanie Kent, works in Telluride and lives in Ophir.
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