Mick Fowler Justine Curgenven Baz Roberts Simone Moro

Leading specialist outdoor clothing and equipment manufacturer, The North Face has announced that four of its team of extreme athletes will be touring the UK in ‘The North Face Summit Series Lecture Tour’ this autumn. Each will reveal the secrets behind their varied pioneering expeditions.

The exciting series of visual lectures will provide a stunning insight into some of the world’s most extreme sports and toughest environments. Sales & Marketing Manager for The North Face, Keith Byrne, comments: “The lectures will appeal to die-hard fans of the great outdoors as well as those who like to learn about new areas with gripping stories, such as fighting off polar bears with pots and pans! Each lecture is brought to life with a mixture of superb photography and films and we fully expect them all to be sold out.”

The UK’s most exciting taxman, Mick Fowler, mountaineer and winner of the prestigious Piolet D’or award for the best climbing ascent of 2003, will talk about his recent trip to China. Baz Roberts, who summited Everest in 2004, will thrill audiences with a talk on the first winter ascent of the highest peak in the Arctic when he also fought off a Polar Bear attack! World renowned climber, Simone Moro, will inspire with a talk on his 20-year climbing career that has taken him to some of the remotest places on the face of our planet: from Patagonia to Russia and the Alps to the Himalayas. Leading kayaker and film-maker, Justine Curvengen, will leave listeners in awe about the first all-female circumnavigation of Tasmania and kayaking up the East coast of Kamchatka in Far Eastern Russia, where her team mates were arrested and had their kayaks taken away on a tank.

LECTURE PROGRAMMES:

Simone Moro – Eight Thousand Metres of Life
17th October 7.00pm The North Face Store, 130 Deansgate, Manchester 0161 837 6140
18th October 7.00pm St Martin’s College Learning Gateway Lecture Theatre, Fusehill Street
19th October 7.30pm Ellis Brigham Mountain Sports, Tower House, 3-11 Southampton Street, Covent Garden 0207 395 1010
20th October 7.30pm Queen’s University, Belfast 01666 575575

Mick Fowler – On Thin Ice / Matterhorn of China – Kajaqiiao / China – Secrets Revealed
27th October 7.30pm October Outdoor Fest, St Martin's College, Ambleside, Cumbria 015394 34204 'On Thin Ice'
7th November 7.30pm John Anderson Campus, Strathclyde University, Glasgow 0141 559 5450 'Matterhorn of China - Kajaqiao'
8th November 7.30pm Douglas Hotel, Market Street, Aberdeen 01224 634 934 'Matterhorn of China - Kajaqiao'
9th November 7.30pm Theatre 4, Appleton Tower, George Square, University of Edinburgh 0131 554 0804 'Matterhorn of China - Kajaqiao'
19th November 10am Kendal Mountain Film Festival, Brewery Arts Centre, Kendal 01539 725133 'China - Secrets Revealed'
29th November 7.30pm Taunton Leisure, 110 Fore Street, Exeter 01392 410534 'On Thin Ice'

Justine Curgenven – Life on the High Seas
9th November 7.00pm The North Face Store, 130 Deansgate,Manchester 0161 837 6140 15th November 7.30pm Kendal Mountain Film Festival Wild Water Evening, Brewery Arts Centre, Kendal 01539 725133
16th November 7.30pm Tiso Inverness Outdoor Experience 01463 716617
17th November 7.30pm Tiso Glasgow Outdoor Experience 0141 559 5450

Baz Roberts – Lost in Greenland
16th November 7.00pm The North Face Store, 130 Deansgate, Manchester 0161 837 6140
18th November 1pm Kendal Mountain Film Festival, Kendal Leisure Centre 01539 725133
5th December 7.30pm The Gateway, Shrewsbury 01743 231649


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