Internationally acclaimed mountaineer, writer and broadcaster Stephen Venables tells the story of legendary mountaineer Eric Shipton in this fast-paced, beautifully illustrated talk that blends historical detail with personal experience.
Street (Somerset), Salford, Buxton, Birmingham, Llandudno, Durham, Radlett, Inverness, Tunbridge Wells, Shrewsbury
Straight from her latest solo expedition to become the first women to ski solo across the entire Antarctic continent, polar explorer Felicity Aston will talk about her first record breaking trip to the South Pole.
In 2009, Felicty led a diverse, multicultural team of ordinary women on one of the most arduous journeys on earth: a 900km trek to the South Pole. The 38-day expedition saw the 8 women, some of whom had never even seen snow before, enduring eighty-mile-an-hour winds, frostbite and daily injuries whilst skiing across the cracking ice, which revealed deadly crevasses beneath. A truly inspirational story and fascinating insight into the coldest, driest and most challenging continent on Earth.
Chesterfield
Following his successful Beyond the Void talks in 2008-2009, mountaineer Simon Yates is back on tour this spring with a new talk, The Wild Within.
Tieing in with the release of his third book in March (Vertebrate Publishing), The Wild Within covers the last ten years of Simon's expeditions to unclimbed peaks in the Cordillera Darwin in Tierra del Fuego, the Wrangell St-Elias ranges on the Alaskan-Yukon border, and Eastern Greenland.
Sheffield, Llandudno, Buxton, Swindon, Loughborough, Inverness, Epsom, Andover, Aberdeen, Dunfermline, Malvern, Swansea, Durham