SAC member Douglas Anderson entertained the audience with reflections on his adventures (all profits from his memoirs<\/a> are donated to the Polar Academy) and we learnt about British alpine pioneer Edward Whymper\u2019s lesser-known Greenland expeditions from President Noel Williams. After this excursion into the past, we were brought back to the 21st<\/sup> century by keynote speaker Master Maiwenn Beadle<\/a> describing the highs and lows of her experience as a superyacht skipper navigating through the sea ice of the North West Passage. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Dinner was the usual highly talkative affair of catching up with old friends and making new ones. The Expedition Fund benefited from a silent auction of member Sheila McCulloch\u2019s collection of Inuit carvings and souvenirs which she recently donated to the Club. In the 1950s Sheila worked as a nurse at the remote Fort McPherson in the Canadian North West Territories. Now in her nineties, she has recently moved to a care home in Edinburgh. The usual generous raffle donations meant that many more members happily went home with prizes ranging from cheese to paintings.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n We dispersed after a leisurely breakfast on Sunday morning, with various smaller parties making the most of being in the Cairngorms for the weekend walking, running & even swimming (briefly!)<\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/arcticclub.scot\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/20241102_171720_web-1024x538.jpg\")
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