ABSTRACT
The first of these Young People’s talks was given in January 1934 by Major L. V. S. Blacker, whose career was chronicled briefly in Chapter VI. Entitling his lecture Flight Over Everest, he described his pioneering flight over that mountain in a bi-plane piloted by Lord Clydesdale. As the Chairman, Lord Lloyd, said at its conclusion: ‘No better lecture for young or old people could have been given.’ It must have set many a young heart racing; it certainly set a high standard for other Young People’s lecturers to follow. Included among those who did come after were Sir Percy Sykes who, in 1937, spoke on The Heart of Asia and the Roof of the World1 and Mr Eric Shipton in 1938 on Mountaineering in the Himalaya.2
