Doug Scott profiled in The Herald Magazine

In June 2009, Doug Scott gave a lecture at Strathclyde University to help raise funds for our trek and for his own charity, Community Action Nepal. More recently, Doug spoke at an event hosted by Glasgow Unversity Mountaineering Club and gave an interview to Herald journalist Billy Briggs whose article was published in The Herald Magazine of Saturday 2 January 2010. The article, which is illustrated with some of Doug Scott’s own photographs, is well worth a read. Here are a couple of extracts:

The grandeur of Glasgow University is an appropriate setting – Scott who is 68, possesses the gravitas of a revered academic, being slightly unkempt with grey hair swept back off his face and a crumpled suit jacket to boot…

He also adopts the air of a travelling salesman, and in the lecture theatre there are tables laden with goods brought from his beloved Nepal. Besides books Scott has written there are framed prints of photographs he took on his climbs – he is an acclaimed photographer too – and bundles of yak wool hats, gloves and scarves for sale, plus colourful Buddhist prayer flags and beads, with the money raised tonight going to support remote Sherpa communities in Nepal. This, Scott says, is now his overriding passion and most of his time these days is devoted to Community Action Nepal (CAN), a charity he set up in 1989 in order to give something back to the people who helped him achieve his ambitions.

Doug Scott with some of our trekkers

More information about CAN can be found here. Doug Scott’s own website is here.