 Jake started climbing when he was 13 |
A student who became the youngest Briton to reach the top of the "seven summits" is to make Bristol University history by giving a special lecture. Jake Meyer, 21, from Tetbury in Gloucestershire, will become the first student to deliver the 2005 Paul Esser Memorial Lecture.
Studying environmental sciences, Mr Meyer conquered the seven summits in June by climbing Mount Everest.
He has now climbed the highest mountains in the seven continents.
The lecture was established in 1972 by friends of the late Paul Esser, a medical student at the university and president of the University Underwater Club, who died while cave-diving in Porth yr Ogof in February 1971.
The endowment provides for an annual lecture on a subject within the general field of water sports or allied activities.
Jake's talk, A Journey to Everest 2005, in on Monday at 1800 BST in the School of Chemistry, Cantocks Close. It is free and open to all.
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