Fjallraven ambassadors Ray Mears and Simon Reeve are set to appear as headline speakers at this year’s Kendal Mountain Festival.
Kendal Mountain Festival 2019 tour dates announced
This year, Kendal Mountain Festival is heading to twenty venues across the UK…
Shortlist for Boardman Tasker Prize announced
The shortlist for the prestigious Boardman Tasker Prize for Mountain Literature has been released, and it looks like 2015 could be a vintage year. This year’s judges – Robin Campbell, Graham Desroy and Terry Gifford – have chosen the following five books from the 36 entries received: ‘In Some Lost Place’ by Sandy Allen (Vertebrate Publishing) ‘Snowblind: Tales of Alpine …
Kendal Mountain Festival announces headliners
Held every November in the Lake District, the Kendal Mountain Festival features hundreds of film screenings plus numerous speakers and guests. Festival organisers have revealed some of the big names that will make an appearance at the festival. Tommy Caldwell, who made headlines last year for free climbing the Dawn Wall with Kevin Jorgeson as well as the completion of …
Bonington and Scott to 'climb Everest again' for Nepal
40 years after the first British ascent of Everest, Sir Chris Bonington and Doug Scott team up once again to launch #ClimbForCAN, a campaign to raise funds which will go to the Community Action Nepal (CAN) Earthquake Appeal. Starting June 12th, they will lead an ‘expedition’ to scale the height of Everest (8,848m) on the ice wall at King Kong …
Kendal Mountain Festival is GO!
It’s Thursday evening and we’ve just come from the opening ceremony of the 2014 Kendal Mountain Festival, which kickstarts three days of films, lectures and socialising in the heart of the Lake District! Crowds gathered in the centre of Kendal for the now-traditional screening of the official KMF trailer, introduced by ‘MC’ Andy Perkins and new co-patron of the festival …
Update: The winner of our Ueli Steck competition is…
This Saturday, 22nd November, the winner of our Ueli Steck competition will be interviewing the man himself, and collecting his new jacket! The lucky winner is Christian Shaw, and in just a couple of days he’ll be talking with Ueli at Kendal Mountain Festival. He’ll be asking the best questions submitted by our readers, so stay tuned to hear about …
'Jeff Lowe's Metanoia' to be shown at Kendal Mountain Festival
Kendal Mountain Festival has secured the second public screening of ‘Jeff Lowe’s Metanoia’, a film about the life and times of the legendary US alpinist. Only two weeks ago, Jeff Lowe’s film was completed and premiered at Banff Mountain Festival on 2nd November. The film has been in production for several years, and to celebrate the screening, Jeff Lowe himself …
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