Andy Cave!
This term is crammed full of events and to add one more to the list our outdoors rep would like to bring this to your attention!
Andy Cave Lecture, 21st October
Andy Cave is on tour this autumn and will be speaking in Barnsley on 21st October, 7.30pm. I've negotiated a bit of a discount for the outdoors clubs, bringing tickets down to £10 each. For transport we'll hopefully be able to get enough people willing to drive, otherwise the train is £4.30 return with a railcard.
If you're interested please contact Alex (ugm5an@leeds.ac.uk) or Jenny (luuoutdoors@gmail.com)
For those of you that are not sure who Mr Cave is...
Andy Cave has over twenty years of alpine climbing experience.
He is a qualified UIAGM mountain guide and author of two books; Learning to Breathe, which received the prize for best Adventure travel book at the 2005 Banff Mountain Book Festival, and the sequel Thin White Line that was published in early 2008 and contains more climbing memoirs.
Aged just 20, Andy became one of the youngest mountaineers at that time to climb the infamous North Face of the Eiger, an achievement made all the more remarkable as just 4 years earlier Andy was working 3000 feet underground at Grimethorpe Colliery in South Yorkshire. Also significant was a repeat of Divine Providence, one of the most difficult Alpine routes at the time. Aged 21, Andy cashed in his miners' pension and went to Asia for five months with Joe Simpson, beginning his quest to seek out new routes and dedicate his life to mountaineering.
Andy made the first ascent of the North Face of Changabang in the Garwhal Himalaya of India with Brendan Murphy. Unfortunately Murphy was hit by an avalanche and swept off the face to his death on the descent.
Along with Sir Chris Bonington, Andy is a patron of The Jonathan Conville Memorial Trust (JCMT). The JCMT was created in 1982 in memory of Jonathan Conville, who died in 1979 during a winter ascent of the Matterhorn. The Trust's aims are to encourage and assist individuals to train for and pursue outdoor adventure in the spirit that Jonathan followed during his life."
Sounds like an awesome guy, I know I will be going, hope you do too!
Alex
Andy Cave Lecture, 21st October
Andy Cave is on tour this autumn and will be speaking in Barnsley on 21st October, 7.30pm. I've negotiated a bit of a discount for the outdoors clubs, bringing tickets down to £10 each. For transport we'll hopefully be able to get enough people willing to drive, otherwise the train is £4.30 return with a railcard.
If you're interested please contact Alex (ugm5an@leeds.ac.uk) or Jenny (luuoutdoors@gmail.com)
For those of you that are not sure who Mr Cave is...
Andy Cave has over twenty years of alpine climbing experience.
He is a qualified UIAGM mountain guide and author of two books; Learning to Breathe, which received the prize for best Adventure travel book at the 2005 Banff Mountain Book Festival, and the sequel Thin White Line that was published in early 2008 and contains more climbing memoirs.
Aged just 20, Andy became one of the youngest mountaineers at that time to climb the infamous North Face of the Eiger, an achievement made all the more remarkable as just 4 years earlier Andy was working 3000 feet underground at Grimethorpe Colliery in South Yorkshire. Also significant was a repeat of Divine Providence, one of the most difficult Alpine routes at the time. Aged 21, Andy cashed in his miners' pension and went to Asia for five months with Joe Simpson, beginning his quest to seek out new routes and dedicate his life to mountaineering.
Andy made the first ascent of the North Face of Changabang in the Garwhal Himalaya of India with Brendan Murphy. Unfortunately Murphy was hit by an avalanche and swept off the face to his death on the descent.
Along with Sir Chris Bonington, Andy is a patron of The Jonathan Conville Memorial Trust (JCMT). The JCMT was created in 1982 in memory of Jonathan Conville, who died in 1979 during a winter ascent of the Matterhorn. The Trust's aims are to encourage and assist individuals to train for and pursue outdoor adventure in the spirit that Jonathan followed during his life."
Sounds like an awesome guy, I know I will be going, hope you do too!
Alex
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