Andy Cave Lecture Tour

FRIDAY, 18 SEPTEMBER 2009
Submitted By: Sherwin Mapanoo

This Autumn, Andy Cave brings his best-selling book Learning to Breathe alive with a series of lectures at 13 venues around the UK.

Andy Cave is a figurehead for British Mountaineering, with more than 20 years of desperate routes to his name. Aged just 20, he became one of the youngest mountaineers ever to climb the North Face of the Eiger at that time, an achievement made all the more remarkable as just 4 years earlier Andy was working 3000 feet underground at Grimethorpe Colliery in South Yorkshire.

Andy's story of transition from Yorkshire coal miner to one of the UK’s best climbers is a gripping and compelling tale. Aged 21, Andy cashed in his miners' pension and went to Asia for five months with Joe Simpson, beginning on his quest to seek out new routes and dedicate his life to mountaineering. His talk is a mix of his experiences of the 1984-85 miner's strike and his early mountaineering trips culminating in his traumatic expedition to the perilous North Face of Changabang in the Himalayas in 1997 - an expedition in which his climbing partner paid the ultimate price and which forced Andy to question his decision to become a mountaineer.

For links to each venues box office to book online, please visit www.speakersfromtheedge.com/events/andy-cave-tour-autumn-09.

Source: www.ukclimbing.com