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Up and About
- Author
- Doug Scott
- Narrator
- Saethon Williams
- Publisher
- Vertebrate Publishing
- Publish Date
- 29 July 2019
- Run Time
- 15 hours 13 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
On 24 September 1975, Doug Scott and Dougal Haston became the first Britons to reach the summit of Everestand they returned home national heroes. Scott went on to become one of Britain's greatest ever mountaineers. In Up and About, Scott tells his story from his birth in Nottingham during the darkest days of war to the summit of the world.
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Details
- Author
- Doug Scott
- Narrator
- Saethon Williams
- Duration
- 15 hours 13 minutes
- Release Date
- 29 July 2019
- ISBN
- 9781912560493
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Vertebrate Publishing
- Genre
- Autobiography: adventurers and explorers, Climbing and mountaineering, The Himalayas, Mount Everest, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Africa
Synopsis
On 24 September 1975, Doug Scott and Dougal Haston became the first Britons to reach the summit of Everestand they returned home national heroes. Scott went on to become one of Britain's greatest ever mountaineers. In Up and About, Scott tells his story from his birth in Nottingham during the darkest days of war to the summit of the world.
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