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MHT will be putting a small selection of items from its collections on display at Keswick Museum this Saturday to complement the Keswick Mountain Festival.  The Museum will also be hosting a book fair and MHT will have its own stall … [more]

The latest collection to be added to those already held by MHT is that of Mick Burke, noted alpinist and film cameraman who sadly disappeared in a storm on Mount Everest in 1975.  The collection comprises slides (and an index … [more]

Thanks to a recent donation from Derek Gamble Managing Director of Peck Climbing Equipment, a variety of items including crackers, chocks, peg-pitons, bandoliers and the noted MacInnes Terrordactyl is currently on display at Charlotte Mason Library, University of Cumbria, Ambleside.  … [more]

MHT have just added another interview to its oral history project – Echoes from the Crag with Leo Dickinson, an adventure film maker who filmed the solo ascent of Eric Jones on the North Face of the Eiger as well as … [more]

MHT are thrilled to announce the forthcoming availability of a new exhibition space for displaying items from our mountain heritage collections within Keswick Museum.  Following confirmation from the Heritage Lottery Fund of their support of the Enhancement Project for Keswick Museum, … [more]

Kenton Cool’s expedition to Mount Everest later this year with the 1922 Olympic medal awarded to Dr Arthur Wakefield highlights the huge value of mountain heritage.  It also sees Kenton honouring a promise originally made by Deputy Leader Lt Colonel Strutt to take a … [more]

John Porter, acclaimed mountaineer, founder of the Kendal Mountain Film Festival and former MHT trustee, will be at ShAFF to give a short lecture on the 10th March at midday before hosting ShAFF’s first ever charity auction in support of … [more]

Dan Smith, University of Northumberland design student is in the process of creating a new everywhere jacket, based on that worn by George Mallory on his expedition to Everest in 1924.  The jacket is a work in progress and it’s … [more]

Sir Chris speaks on BBC Radio Cumbria about launch of Bonington archive http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/console/p00mynqr The interview starts at 2:20:11

MHT are delighted to announce that the Bonington Collection is now open to the general public thanks to funding received from the Heritage Lottery Fund and the BMC. The papers include expedition documents, correspondence, press cutting scrapbooks and manuscript drafts of … [more]