Matt Dickinson is a writer and film-maker. An awardwinning novelist, he has made numerous films for the BBC, National Geographic Television and the Discovery Channel. Matt had the personal misfortune but the journalistic good fortune to be present on Mount Everest in May 1996 at the time of the worst single night for fatalities in the history of the highest mountain in the world. His account of his own successful attempt on Everest via the North Face is given in his 1997 book The Death Zone: Climbing the North Face Through the Killer Storm. Matt will give an illustrated lecture of his experiences as a mountaineer and documentary-maker on Everest.
