Speaker.
Andy Kirkpatrick
A Climber
Profile:
Andy has a reputation for seeking out routes where the danger is real, and the return is questionable, pushing himself on some of the hardest walls and faces in the Alps and beyond, although personally he prefers Metro's tag that he “makes Ray Mears look like Paris Hilton”.
What I'm talking about:
Confessions of A Chocolate Safety Diver
I will mix stories about my life and climbs, one minute terrifying, the next hilarious, a style described by the Banff film festival as “Turning tales of near death into philosophical and comic scenarios worthy of Samuel Beckett, or Monty Python”.
Whether I'm telling a story about a 12 day solo of the hardest climb on the planet, a month long crossing of Greenland with my paraplegic girlfriend or saving Johnny Depp on Charlie and the chocolate factory, rest assured you won’t have heard anything quite like it.
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My Brainfood
Websites
- Psychovertical
- Climbing blog from Andy Kirkpatrick
- Ben Saunders
- Ben Saunders is a record-breaking long-distance skier, this is his site
- Andy Kirkpatrick Photographs
- Andy’s pictures
- Gym Jones
- Training train athletes and professionals
- The Quietus
- A new rock music and pop culture website
Books
- If you Fall: It’s a New Beginning
- Author:
Description: A story of courage and climbing
ISBN: 1905047886 - Total Alpinism
- Author:
Description: An autobiography of Rene Desmaison’s major climbs
ISBN: 0246111127 - Alone Across Antarctica
- Author:
Description: Travels in Antartica
ISBN: 82-994379-1-1 - In Patagonia
- Author:
Description: An account of Bruce Chatwin’s travels to a remote country in search of a strange beast & his encounters with the people whose fascinating stories delay him on the road
ISBN: 0099769514 - Yosemite in the Sixties
- Author:
Description: Black and white prints from the 60’s
ISBN: 0979065909
Organisations
- Banff Mountain Writing program
- This is a residency program, six participating writers delve into their own writing projects on a topic in the area of mountain culture, mountain environment, mountain life, adventure, climbing, and/or mountain history
- Community Action Nepal
- Community Action Nepal helps and supports remote communities through Education, Health and Community Development programmes.
- Jonathan Conville Memorial Trust
- The trust encourages safe and enjoyable practice in mountaineering, by operating subsidised training
- Patagonia Land Trust
- Protection and restoration of wildland ecosystems and biodiversity in Patagonia
- Central Asia Institute
- To promote and support community based-education for girls in remote regions of Pakistan and Afganistan
Yep, not seen anything this funny/awesome in ages! Although it is illegal to dis Ray Mears..!
Radio4 - Listen again - Mid Week programme, on at the moment - but listen again; 0920 ish Wednesday 17th Dec 08.
Top man, what more is there to say!!
Funniest man alive. Read his new book!
Brilliant! Funniest talk I've seen for ages and interesting!