Julie Summers

Julie Summers is a biographer, historian and author of fifteen works of non-fiction including Fearless on Everest: the Quest for Sandy Irvine. She is Irvine’s great-niece and the family spokesperson and curated the Sandy Irvine Trust from 1999 to 2005.

She has been closely involved with the mountaineering community, chairing Britain’s Mountain Heritage Trust and regularly lecturing about Sandy Irvine. She took part in the IMAX film, The Wildest Dream, and has contributed to documentaries, blogs and radio programmes on the subject of Everest 1924. Most recently she co-narrated the Alpine Club documentary Everest – By Those Who Were There 1921, 1922, 1924. She lives in Oxford.