Catherine Moorehead was born in Nairn, Scotland and was educated at Edinburgh University before embarking on a teaching career. Widely travelled in many countries, she has led numerous mountaineering expeditions, particularly in Central Asia. She completaed 'compleated' (in inverted commas) her Scottish Munros in 1996.
Stephen Venables is a British mountaineer and writer, and is a past president of the South Georgia Association and of the Alpine Club. He was the first Briton to climb Everest without supplementary oxygen.
