The 2015 Haldane Tait Lecture and dinner was held on the historic Craiglockhart Campus of Napier University.
The lecturer Harriet Tuckey gave a fascinating account of the role of her father in the first successful of climbing of Mount Everest in a lecture: ‘Everest the First Ascent: the untold story of Griffith Pugh the man who made it possible’
This was based on her award-winning biography of her father where she outlines some of his innovations and describes her difficult relationship with him.
