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Archives of personal documents belonging to Chris Bonington have gone on show thanks to the joint funding of a number of mountaineering bodies.

Archivist Maxine Willett has been working on the collection, which includes letters, press cuttings and expedition documents, for two years alongside volunteers Tony and Pat Williams.

Bonington changed the face of climbing, establishing new rock routes in Britain and helping to make the activity more lightweight.

He is best known for his expeditions to the Himalayas, however, including climbing the south face of Annapurna and south west face of Everest.

Bonington said: "I have kept all the correspondence, papers and diaries from all of my expeditions over the last 48 years in a shed at the bottom of my garden which reflects some of the most important British expeditions of the 60s, 70s and 80s."

The documents are now being housed at Station House, property of the Mountain Heritage Trust.

Bonington has also written a large number of books including I Chose to Climb, which was published in 1966.