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Albert Lin is part of the Speaker Series at The Conrad in La Jolla

Season 56
SPEAKER SERIES

ALBERT LIN* | GERLINDE KALTENBRUNNER* | JESS CRAMP*

Our Speaker Series is back and more popular than ever! This season, we will join intrepid adventurers to seek out lost cities, discover the secrets of sharks, and conquer the world’s 14 tallest peaks.

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*LJMS debut

 

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ALBERT LIN:
IN SEARCH OF LOST CITIES

Thursday, January 30, 2025 · 7:30 PM
The Baker-Baum Concert Hall

Albert Lin is a professional explorer, blurring boundaries between human and machine, while uncovering the lost relics of our past. Despite losing his leg below the knee in 2016, Albert maintains a relentless quest into the farthest reaches of our planet—from Mongolia to the Mayan jungle—employing a technologist’s approach to unearth lost cultural stories and rituals.

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Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner is part of the Speaker Series at The Conrad in La Jolla

GERLINDE KALTENBRUNNER:
DEFYING LIMITS: CLIMBING THE 14 HIGHEST PEAKS

Thursday, March 6, 2025 · 7:30 PM
The Baker-Baum Concert Hall

At 23, Austrian mountaineer Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner reached the summit of her first  8,000-meter peak. Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner has climbed all 14 of the seminal 8,000+ meter peaks, from Annapurna to Everest. Upon completing the most daunting and feared mountain, K2, in the remote Karakoram Range, she became the first woman climber to do so without supplemental oxygen or porters. She completed her audacious quest on her seventh attempt up what many consider to be the most daunting of all climbs, the world’s second highest peak, K2—known worldwide as the “Savage Mountain”—in the remote Karakoram Range of Pakistan and China. Through her stories and gripping footage, experience the grit, sheer will, and spunk it took to reach the final summit.

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Jess Cramp is part of the Speaker Series at The Conrad in La Jolla

JESS CRAMP:
THE UNTOLD STORY OF SHARKS

Thursday, April 24, 2025 · 7:30 PM
The Baker-Baum Concert Hall

National Geographic Live brings our Explorers from the field to your city, live on stage. Get up close with the most powerful predators in the ocean alongside shark researcher and National Geographic Explorer Dr. Jess Cramp, who aims to change the old narratives of these graceful icons.

 

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