Jenny Tough is a professional adventurer. An endurance athlete, a writer, and a lover of exploring mountains alone. Jenny was one of the stars at Love Trails festival, joining me on stage for a screening of her new film SOLO followed by Q&A with an overflowing and excited audience.
Read MoreIn January 2018 mountaineer Élisabeth Revol’s rescue after becoming the first woman to summit Nanga Parbat (8,126m) in winter made headlines around the world. Tragically, Élisabeth’s climbing partner Tomasz Mackiewicz did not survive, and the world watched - and judged - in real time as the rescue effort unfolded. To Live is Élisabeth’s side of the story, and it’s a hard read….
Read MoreFell runner and poet Helen Mort explores our love of dogs and mountains. By coincidence I’ve met some of the dogs in this book. The first is Dean Potter’s Whisper, who I patted at the Yosemite Facelift in 2014, shortly after a screening of When Dogs Fly in which Potter takes his canine best friend BASE jumping…
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