BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//jEvents 2.0 for Joomla//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1571c116cf290950e24582d8d76bba16 CATEGORIES:Club Night CREATED:20221129T091435 SUMMARY:Peter Laurenson at Club Night URL;VALUE=URI:https://live.nelsontrampingclub.org.nz/events/events-search-results/1187/pe ter-laurenson-at-club-night?tmpl=component DESCRIPTION:Final Club night for 2023 : BE THERE!\nVenue: Underwater Club rooms, Hastin gs St, beside Pioneer Park, Nelson city.\nTime: Meet at 7pm, Talk from 7:30 pm.\nCost: Gold Coin donation.\nGuest speaker: Peter Laurenson, the Editor of the FMC Backcountry magazine. He has recently moved from windy Wellingto n to live in Richmond, so let's give his a warm Nelson welcome :-)\nPeter w ill present the spectacular images from his second book, KHUMBU Pathways to Kinship in August 2021.\nHis story encompasses seven trekking journeys spa nning more than thirty years to Khumbu, the Nepalese gateway to Mount Evere st and home to the Sherpa people. His story is also about a journey to kins hip between a Kiwi family and a Sherpa family; a journey through tourism ex pansion, the emergence of guided climbs to the summit of Mount Everest, eco nomic and technological development and environmental, cultural and politic al change; and a journey shared by a father and each of his three sons. It also carries a message that is well timed as we slowly work our way to the far end of the COVID tunnel.\nHis book was the Mountain and Adventure Herit age Category winner at the 2022 NZ Mountain Film & Book Festival at Wan aka. Leading New Zealand mountaineer Guy Cotter wrote the Foreword and wrot e this about his photographs: ‘The images are wonderful to the point I find myself looking so deeply into them that I feel like I am actually there ag ain, slightly short of breath, but full of gratitude.’\n\n - Special offer to NZAC Nelson members: $50 (down from $70 – 29% off).\n - Find out about t he book at:   (https://www.occasionalclimber.co.nz/words-with-pictures/khu mbu-pathways-to-kinship/)https://www.occasionalclimber.co.nz/words-with-pic tures/khumbu-pathways-to-kinship/ (https://www.occasionalclimber.co.nz/word s-with-pictures/khumbu-pathways-to-kinship/)\n - Peter will bring copies of the book to the presentation on 2 October. Payment preferred online to 15- 3971-0056131-10 . Please put purchaser name and 'KHUMBU' in the reference f ields.Brief bio\nPeter has been a member of NZAC since 2002.\nSince his fir st backpacking trip away from New Zealand in 1988, Peter has visited and ph otographed many mountainous parts of the world, but none have had such an i mpact on him as Nepal.\nThe website www.occasionalclimber.co.nz (https://w ww.occasionalclimber.co.nz)showcases his mountain and travel adventures. In 2013 he published his first book Occasional Climber: A Journey to Mount Cl arity.\n\n\n (images/uploads/events/Khumbu-Pathways-to-kinship-Front-Cover. jpg)\n This event was imported from: https://live.nelsontrampingclub.org.nz /events/events-search-results/1187/peter-laurenson-at-club-night?tmpl=compo nent X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

Final Club night for 2023 : BE THERE!

Ven ue: Underwater Club rooms, Hastings St, beside Pioneer Park, Nelso n city.
Time: Meet at 7pm, Talk from 7:30pm.
Cost: Gold Coin donation.
Guest speaker: Peter Laurenson, the Editor of the FMC Backcountry magazine. He has recently moved from windy Wellington to live in Richmond, so let's give his a warm Nelson welcome :-)

Peter will present the spectacular ima ges from his second book, KHUMBU Pathways to Kinship in August 2021.

His story encompasses seven trekking journeys spa nning more than thirty years to Khumbu, the Nepalese gateway to Mount Evere st and home to the Sherpa people. His story is also about a journey to kins hip between a Kiwi family and a Sherpa family; a journey through tourism ex pansion, the emergence of guided climbs to the summit of Mount Everest, eco nomic and technological development and environmental, cultural and politic al change; and a journey shared by a father and each of his three sons. It also carries a message that is well timed as we slowly work our way to the far end of the COVID tunnel.

His book was the Mountain and Adventure Heritage Category winner at the 2022 NZ Mountain Film & Book Fe stival at Wanaka. Leading New Zealand mountaineer Guy Cotter wrote the Foreword and wrote this about his photographs: ‘The images are wonderf ul to the point I find myself looking so deeply into them that I feel like I am actually there again, slightly short of breath, but full of gratitude. ’

Brief bio

Peter has been a member of NZ AC since 2002.

Since his first backpacking trip away from New Zealand in 1988, Peter has visited and photographed many mountainous parts of the world, but none have had such an impact on him as Nepal.
The website < a href="https://www.occasionalclimber.co.nz">www.occasionalclimber.co.nz showcases his mountain and travel adventures. In 2013 he published his fi rst book Occasional Climber: A Journey to Mount Clarity.

Khumbu Pathways to kin ship Front Cover

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