Andy Cave Tour Autumn 2009

FRIDAY, 20 NOVEMBER 2009
Submitted By: Sherwin Mapanoo

Internationally acclaimed mountaineer and ex-coal miner Andy Cave is set to travel around the UK this autumn with his gripping lecture show Learning to Breathe.

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, 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. Traditionally a gentleman's sport, a young coal miner from Barnsley was an unlikely mountaineer. His journey from the blackened grime of the pit to the breath-taking Himalayan summits is both moving and startling. His gritty insight into the turmoil of the miner's strike - which ravaged his local community - and his audacious decision to break with family tradition and seek out a life of adventure in the mountains is a tale of tremendous courage and ambition.

For more details, please visit www.speakersfromtheedge.com.