Post by Paul on Nov 29, 2010 18:27:07 GMT
Hi Guys
On Friday night December 3rd Wk 13 at 7:00 p.m in the Students Union Common Room we are all invited to a special talk on the life and achievement of a true Limerick hero and fellow Mountaineer Ger Mc Donnell.
Ger Mc Donnell was an ordinary man and a mountaineer who was involved in many expeditions over his short life such as a successful summit on Mt Everest where famously pucked a sliotar with a hurley from the south col achieving the first highest Fada in the world. He was also involved in the Beyond Endurance an event to mark the honor of our Irish heroic Antarctic Polar explorers: Ernest Shackleton Tom Crean, Patrick Keohane, Robert Forde, Mortimer and Tim McCarthy. They traversed South Georgia via Shackleton's route.
He was the first Irish person to reach the summit of K2, the second-highest mountain on Earth, in August 2008. He lost his life along with ten other mountaineers following an avalanche on the descent, in the worst single accident in history of K 2 mountaineering.
Ger’s family will give the presentation and it will last about 2 – 2 1/2 hrs, it will be in the form of a power point and Audio. It is unique in the sense that Ger will be telling his own story from a recorded interview taken some years previous complimented with Ger’s own pictures. Ger tells how he became a mountaineer and the expeditions that he has done. Also they will describe that faithful day on K2; afterwards there will be a questions and answers session.
This is a great opportunity to hear a first hand account of the incredible life story of mountaineer Ger Mc Donnell and give inspiration to fellow mountaineers.
On Friday night December 3rd Wk 13 at 7:00 p.m in the Students Union Common Room we are all invited to a special talk on the life and achievement of a true Limerick hero and fellow Mountaineer Ger Mc Donnell.
Ger Mc Donnell was an ordinary man and a mountaineer who was involved in many expeditions over his short life such as a successful summit on Mt Everest where famously pucked a sliotar with a hurley from the south col achieving the first highest Fada in the world. He was also involved in the Beyond Endurance an event to mark the honor of our Irish heroic Antarctic Polar explorers: Ernest Shackleton Tom Crean, Patrick Keohane, Robert Forde, Mortimer and Tim McCarthy. They traversed South Georgia via Shackleton's route.
He was the first Irish person to reach the summit of K2, the second-highest mountain on Earth, in August 2008. He lost his life along with ten other mountaineers following an avalanche on the descent, in the worst single accident in history of K 2 mountaineering.
Ger’s family will give the presentation and it will last about 2 – 2 1/2 hrs, it will be in the form of a power point and Audio. It is unique in the sense that Ger will be telling his own story from a recorded interview taken some years previous complimented with Ger’s own pictures. Ger tells how he became a mountaineer and the expeditions that he has done. Also they will describe that faithful day on K2; afterwards there will be a questions and answers session.
This is a great opportunity to hear a first hand account of the incredible life story of mountaineer Ger Mc Donnell and give inspiration to fellow mountaineers.
