Mountain Heritage Trust Showreel

Posted by Maxine Willett on 21/11/2013

Mountain Heritage Trust now has some amazing new content on their website, including their new showreels.

These include:

Recording of first ascents e.g. James McHaffie on The Meltdown.
Re-enacting historic first ascents e.g. Bentley Beetham on Trod Tethera, Walter Parry Haskett-Smith on Napes Needle
Relationship with other collections e.g. Keswick Museum, Reinhold Messner Mountain Museums, Zermatt Museum.
Reclaiming archive footage e.g Ray McHaffie on Little Chamonix in boxing gloves and rolling skates, plus Abraham brothers film footage on Napes Needle, 1920.
Recording first-person accounts e.g. Doug Scott, Jim Curran, Johnny Dawes.
Receiving loans and donations e.g. Wasdale Abraham Collection, Siegfried Herford Papers.

Check them out on the Mountain Heritage Trust website

If you would like any further information about the work of MHT please contact Maxine on maxine@mountain-heritage.org or 01768 840911

Further information about this showreel and related projects can be obtained from Simon@reeltimeadventure.co.uk Website: reeltimeadventure

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