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Get tickets here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/reel-rock-film-tour-tickets-39933789038?aff=efbeventtix 12.27 Wednesday (Film)Nectar & SolidSound present:REEL ROCK Film Tour: REEL ROCK 12Featuring Gear giveaways, Raffle Prizes and moreProceeds benefit The Washington Climbers Coalition$12adv8pm doors8:30pm movie21+This December, in the season of giving, watch the incredible climbing doc REEL ROCK 12 at Nectar Lounge, with proceeds of your ticket going to fund the Washington Climbers Coalition's projects maintaining and improving our favorite regional Crags! Plus a Gear, raffle prizes, Featuring full bar and kitchen service, Gear raffle and more! About Reel Rock 12: Get ready for climbing’s greatest stories, stars, and sends. REEL ROCK 12 premieres four new short films that will deliver heart-thumping action, big laughs, and pure inspiration. Featuring Margo Hayes, the first woman to climb 5.15; Brad Gobright, an up-and-coming free soloist with a donut addiction; the return of Chris Sharma to the deep water soloing stage, and more. About Washington Climber's Coalition: Our mission is to make Washington a better place to climb through advocacy, stewardship, and education. We are climbers who believe that climbers must work together and work cooperatively with land managers and other groups who have an interest in the places where we climb or we risk losing access to these places we cherish. We are an all-volunteer 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. We take care of the places where we climb and strive to keep climbing areas open. Current projects include building a new toilet at the Vantage Climbing area, route maintenance at Exit 38, Gold Bar, Tieton and more. Your funds will benefit these causes!

Aerial photographer John Scurlock captivates, motivates, and educates with his stunning pictures of the Cascades. Ascent Outdoors will host the photographic pioneer on the evening of January 10th as part of the Hike Back in History series by Washington's National Park Fund. Hear from Scurlock on how photos not only capture snowy landscapes, but help preserve, research, and explore them. Not to mention looking at lots of his incredible photos as we start celebrating the 50th anniversary of North Cascades National Park! We’ll also have related artifacts from the WNPF collection, including maps of the North Cascades and an original copy of the photo book that helped convince Congress to create North Cascades National Park. Please join us for an evening of history, beer, and beautiful photos by Washington’s John Scurlock. January 10, 2018 Doors: 730 Show: 745 Event is FREE at Ascent Outdoors 5209 Ballard Ave. NW Seattle, WA 98107 206.545.8810

Famed Mountaineer Fred Beckey first travelled to the Himalaya in 1955 as a member of the International Himalayan Expedition.Their objective: To make the first ascent of Lhotse, a part of the Everest massif. At 27,940 feet, this is the fourth highest mountain in the world.Over the next nearly-sixty years Fred made multiple trips back to the Himalaya.His interests were in finding unclimbed peaks, establishing new routes on previously climbed peaks, trekking untrodden, remote mountain valleys, and the study and exploration of sub-ranges of various Asian Mountains and the Himals.This short evening lecture will focus on the goals of the Lhotse Expedition, and analyse controversies that arose with this climb, and resultant outcomes. Time permitting, the detail and objectives of subsequent trips will also be discussed, and include the ambitious plans of what had been Fred Beckey's most recent Himalayan objective, which would have been to travel next year (2018), to a remote valley in the Garhwal of Northern India. Fred Beckey recently died at age ninety-four. He lived a life that centered on mountains, climbing, scholarship, research and creating a legacy that will endure for generations to come. The speaker, Megan E. Bond, is also Fred Beckey's biographer and will read excerpts from her writings, which will be published by Mountaineers Books. Over the course of a decade, she and Fred made multiple exploratory trips together to Nepal, India, China and Tibet. *There is no charge for this event, but please Register for a 'Ticket' as capacity is limited to forty people. Please message the Speaker/Host (Megan) to add your name. Thank you. .................................... Location: Magnolia Branch of the Seattle Public Library. 2801 34th Ave West Seattle WA 98199