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A solo triathlon crossing of nearly 300 miles linking London and Paris where swimming the English Channel is only the middle part of the challenge?
Are you serious?
Andy Mouncey was and did just this - and in doing so set new record times for each of the three stages:
Running 87 miles
from Marble Arch in London to Dover
Swimming the 22 miles
of the English Channel
Cycling 190 miles
from Calais to the Arc D'Triomphe, Paris.
Solo - Against the clock - Rest when you get there!
Now living locally, Andy and his wife Charlotte will take you on the rollercoaster ride which was their Enduroman Arch to Arc Challenge. An evening of film, slides, insights and conversation from the man who did - and the woman who made it possible!
Find Out More about Andy: www.doingbigandscary.com |
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Scafell presents an alluring and sublime skyline, an impressive wave of naked piled rock, sharp ridge and steep crag, soaring high above shadow-filled hanging coves and deep valleys. Rise to these heights and you are walking on the roof of England, high above precipices that have captivated and challenged climbers and travellers for some two hundred years. In 1802 Coleridge rested from his daring exploits at the summit to write 'surely the first Letter ever written from the top of Sca' Fell!' By the mid nineteenth century, with Wordsworth's Guide to the Lakes a bestseller since 1810, the railways were opening up this remote region to lovers of the romantic and sublime. Intrepid travellers set out to explore it on foot and horseback, while the first recorded rock climb took place on Scafell in 1815. In the 1880s the Keswick-based Abraham Brothers began their superb series of black-and-white photographic portraits, which have had an unparalleled influence on perceptions of the English landcape. In pictures and text Bill reveals five different approaches with the details and panoramas that unfold on each ascent. His study is completed by essays on the region's history, geology, flora and fauna, and its paramount importance in the history of mountaineering and fell-walking. With three generations of his own family at the daring edge of mountaineering breakthroughs on Scafell, he brings a unique insight into the many moods of this magnificent mountain. Bill Birkett is one of Britain's foremost mountain writers & photographers. Photography, climbing and walking have been his lifelong passion. He first started exploring the mountains with his father Jim Birkett, a leading climber and naturalist. He lives in Little Langdale in the Lake District |
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Scafell presents an alluring and sublime skyline, an impressive wave of naked piled rock, sharp ridge and steep crag, soaring high above shadow-filled hanging coves and deep valleys. Rise to these heights and you are walking on the roof of England, high above precipices that have captivated and challenged climbers and travellers for some two hundred years. In 1802 Coleridge rested from his daring exploits at the summit to write 'surely the first Letter ever written from the top of Sca' Fell!' By the mid nineteenth century, with Wordsworth's Guide to the Lakes a bestseller since 1810, the railways were opening up this remote region to lovers of the romantic and sublime. Intrepid travellers set out to explore it on foot and horseback, while the first recorded rock climb took place on Scafell in 1815. In the 1880s the Keswick-based Abraham Brothers began their superb series of black-and-white photographic portraits, which have had an unparalleled influence on perceptions of the English landcape. In pictures and text Bill reveals five different approaches with the details and panoramas that unfold on each ascent. His study is completed by essays on the region's history, geology, flora and fauna, and its paramount importance in the history of mountaineering and fell-walking. With three generations of his own family at the daring edge of mountaineering breakthroughs on Scafell, he brings a unique insight into the many moods of this magnificent mountain.
Bill Birkett is one of Britain's foremost mountain writers & photographers. Photography, climbing and walking have been his lifelong passion. He first started exploring the mountains with his father Jim Birkett, a leading climber and naturalist. He lives in Little Langdale in the Lake District |
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Awarded a Winston Churchill Travelling Fellowship in 2006, Kate cycled 4500 miles from El Paso to Anchorage along the spine of the Rockies, exploring N.American beliefs about, and responses to, climate change - and what we in Europe can learn from the most oil intensive culture on earth about tackling the climate change challenge.
Dr Kate Rawles works half-time in Ambleside as a lecturer in Outdoor Studies at the University of Cumbria, and half-time as a freelance lecturer and outdoor philosopher. She is a sea-kayaker, hillwalker and cyclist - and a climate change campaigner. |
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Yani’s first long distance cycle ride took her and three friends across the Tien Shan and Karakoram. She followed this with rides across the Himalaya and Andes as part of a two man team, before taking on solo trips in Alaska and Tibet. This slide show includes scenery, culture and stories from a number of these journeys.
Dr. Yani Najman lectures in the Dept. Environmental Sciences at Lancaster
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Impacts of a warming world by Ashley Cooper of Global Warming Images
Ashley Cooper has always been passionate about the environment and in recent years global warming, the affects of which he has been documenting for the last 8 years. His trips have taken him to many parts of the world with his particular interest being in capturing images that graphically demonstrate the impact of global warming, on people, places and wildlife. A background in natural sciences underpins and informs much of Ashley’s work.
Very few photographers internationally have concentrated on the problems of global warming, so www.globalwarmingimages.net is one of only a handful around the world that is entirely dedicated to this most crucial of issues confronting mankind. Ashley’s work is represented in the UK by the Agencies, Collections and Woodfall Wild Images and internationally by Corbis and Alamy.
Ashley is the Chairman of the Langdale/Ambleside Mountain Rescue Team, the busiest mountain rescue team in the British Isles. He lives in Ambleside with his wife Jill and Border Collie, Tag. |
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‘A Year on the Life of Borrowdale’
BILL BIRKETT
For his second Lake District title in his ‘A Year In The Life of’ series Bill Birkett turns his attention to one of the most enchanting and famous landscapes in Britain. Despite it’s huge popularity sylvan Borrowdale, stretching from the high fells of Esk Pike and Great Gable down to Derwent Water, has many surprises and hidden places all of which are captured to stunning effect in this magnificently photogenic book.
Bill Birkett is one of Britain's foremost mountain writers & photographers. Photography, climbing and walking have been his lifelong passion. He first started exploring the mountains with his farther Jim Birkett, a leading climber and naturalist. He lives in Little Langdale in the Lake District |
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‘A Year on the Life of Borrowdale’
BILL BIRKETT
For his second Lake District title in his ‘A Year In The Life of’ series Bill Birkett turns his attention to one of the most enchanting and famous landscapes in Britain. Despite it’s huge popularity sylvan Borrowdale, stretching from the high fells of Esk Pike and Great Gable down to Derwent Water, has many surprises and hidden places all of which are captured to stunning effect in this magnificently photogenic book.
Bill Birkett is one of Britain's foremost mountain writers & photographers. Photography, climbing and walking have been his lifelong passion. He first started exploring the mountains with his farther Jim Birkett, a leading climber and naturalist. He lives in Little Langdale in the Lake District |
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'A Bunch of blokes and a big mountain'
Tim Mosedale
Four friends from Keswick make an ascent of Everest without the usual huge sponsership and support... if you really want to do something big....
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‘A Year on the Life of the Duddon Valley’
Bill Birkett
This is the third lake District volume of Bill Birkett’s prize-winning and widely praised valley portraits through the seasons, taking as its subject one of the lesser known but perhaps most varied and beautiful of all Lake District valleys, the little visited and remote Duddon.
Bill Birkett is one of Britain's foremost mountain writers & photographers. Photography, climbing and walking have been his lifelong passion. He first started exploring the mountains with his farther Jim Birkett, a leading climber and naturalist. He lives in Little Langdale in the Lake District |
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‘A Year on the Life of the Duddon Valley’
Bill Birkett
This is the third lake District volume of Bill Birkett’s prize-winning and widely praised valley portraits through the seasons, taking as its subject one of the lesser known but perhaps most varied and beautiful of all Lake District valleys, the little visited and remote Duddon.
Bill Birkett is one of Britain's foremost mountain writers & photographers. Photography, climbing and walking have been his lifelong passion. He first started exploring the mountains with his farther Jim Birkett, a leading climber and naturalist. He lives in Little Langdale in the Lake District |
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‘EverestMax’
PAULINE & PHIL SANDERSON
The story of an amazing continuous trip starting cycling from the Dead Sea, the lowest point on the earth to finish climbing to the summit of Everest, the highest point. Pauline completed the whole trip! Her husband joined her for the ascent of Everest to become the first husband & wife team to summit together |
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‘A Mountain Life - Ski Days in the Alps’
NIGEL SHEPHERD
Drawing from Nigels wealth of experience, this talk covers some off piste skiing, heli skiing, ski touring and the Chamonix to Zermatt traverse on skis! He will also include a bit about avalanche and skiing safely as well. This is for lesure & technical skiers.
Nigel Shepherd is a well known figure in the Outdoor world with over 35 years climbing experience and 27 years as a qualified International Mountain Guide with periods as Training officer & President of the British Mountain Guides. He spends around 16 weeks each winter in Europe guiding groups of clients in the mountains for Off Piste skiing, ski touring and heliskiing. He has many books to his name as author, contributor and/or photographer including A Manual of Modern Rope Techniques, Chamonix Cragging, Rock Climbing – techniques and safety translated into 5 different languages, The Complete Rock Climber, World Mountaineering, Update Poucher Welsh Peaks and co-editor of Peak & Pennine update. |
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