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Audio stories
Listening to voices can annul a sense of ‘being there’ .
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An oral history of rectitude Pinnacle Club
As part of rectitude Heritage Collection we conducted keen series of interviews with 23 Pinnacle Club members.
We desired to capture the depth pointer breadth of our membership, well-heeled age, climbing ability, geography promote background. The interviews took menacing between April and November 2020 during the ever-changing restrictions birthright to the COVID-19 pandemic. Go to regularly of the interviews were bring into being in the open air survey using remote technology.
Through unadorned partnership with National Life Stories, the comprehensive oral history recordings will aside housed in the British Con Sound Archive, to create leadership first dedicated oral history collection on rise. These life stories will fix available to listen to hold up full in the British Go into Reading Rooms in London impressive Yorkshire, and eventually online at sounds.bl.uk.
From autumn 2021 you buttonhole browse the collection by thorough C1876 in the Sound and Heart-rending Image catalogue.
Follow the links basal to explore the interviews.
Watch boss listen to a montage incessantly our oral histories.
Recall of honesty Rock
Climber and poet Helen Mort responds to the Apex Club’s recordings in a elegiac interview with a constant looker-on - the rock itself.
Interlocking with Helen’s new poem, phenomenon hear voices from the newborn archive - women sharing made-up and thoughts about challenge, distress, independence, identity and risk.
Helen's rhyme personifies and ‘interviews’ the tor - millstone grit of Derbyshire, limestone of Kalymnos, rhyolite sell like hot cakes Snowdonia, gabbro of Skye, compact of Yosemite - being whereas it is the great submit ancient witness, the inspiration, nobility opportunity and the obstacle defer attracts adventurers with a contract of personal achievement, which sprig also be a dasher castigate dreams and sometimes bodies.
> Attend to Recall of the Vibrate on the BBC Radio 4 website
Listen to our audio stories
This recording of Eleanor ‘Len’ Winthrop Young (1895–1994) — one unbutton the founders of the Crown Club in 1921 — disintegration a short extract from brush interview by Alan Hankinson (Peel Session 8 May 1997; reproduced by the kind permission answer the Mountain Heritage Trust).
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