WS '23 Guest Lecture: Eddie Taylor from the Full Circle Everest Team
- Leaders
- Madeline Hickman, Michelle O'Donnell
- Type
- Other
- Trip date
- Tuesday, January 31st, 2023
- Difficulty rating
- easy
Week 4, Tuesday: This is the 7th lecture of Winter School 2023!
Lecture Logistics
For the last two weeks of Winter School, we'll be hosting a series of guest lectures on exciting Winter Adventures and Winter Adventurers. Join us! (You're welcome to attend the guest lectures even if you missed the mandatory safety lectures during Week 1). Tonight's talk is from Eddie Taylor, from the Full Circle Everest Team We'll also have a MITOC mini trip reports, along with the usual upcoming weekend trip announcements - hope to see you there!
The lecture will take place on campus in room 6-120 from 7pm to 9pm.
Lecture Description
Guest Lecture by Eddie Taylor:
Eddie Taylor, a member of the Full Circle Everest Expedition Team, will talk to us about his background, climbing, and the team's successful summiting of Mount Everest last year. Full Circle Everest is the first team of Black climbers to summit Mount Everest, and the team has an intention to set an example for others, especially on the margins of society, to follow a path to a dream of their own making.
There will also be two trip reports by MITOCers about their time in Svalbard and the Alps!
Signup
- Algorithm
- first-come, first-serve
- Maximum participants
- 150
- Signups opened at
- Jan. 30, 2023, 9:50 a.m.
- Signups closed at
- Jan. 31, 2023, 9 p.m.