Stephen Venables: Update & Lecture Tour

Over to Stephen....

"Last month I returned from a hugely enjoyable expedition to South Georgia.  Skip Novak and I were accompanied by a boatload of surgeons and physicians, a website mogul, a venture capitalist and a novelist.  We were blessed with generally fine weather for a generally uneventful repeat of Shackleton’s famous crossing of the island. 

On the way home I stopped for a few days in Chile, as a guest speaker for Fundacion Vertical’s annual Geografica conference.   I had a wonderful time with Rodrigo Jordan and his colleagues, did a little rock climbing, and visited the street in Viña del Mar where my grandmother was born in 1898.  And, to accommodate me in the style to which I wish I were accustomed, our man in Santiago, Jon Benjamin, generously put me up at the British Embassy.  

Now to 2012.

Rosie and I are looking forward to a couple of quick holidays in Amsterdam and India, on the back of speaking engagements.  At some stage we will also go out to the Alps, to visit Edmond, who is working in Les Arcs.

Back here, I will be touring my Eric Shipton lecture sponsored by Mountain Equipment

JANUARY 
Thurs 26th  STREET, SOMERSET Strode Theatre 01458 44 28 46
Mon 30th SALFORD The Lowry 0843 208 6000

FEBRUARY 
Sat 11th BUXTON Opera House 0845 1272190

MARCH 
Mon 5th  BIRMINGHAM Town Hall 0121 780 3333
Thurs 8th LLANDUDNO Venue Cymru 01492 872000
Thurs 22nd DURHAM The Gala 0191 332 4041
Weds 28th RADLETT The Radlett Centre 01923 859291
Thurs 29th INVERNESS Eden Court 01463 234234

APRIL 
Sun 1st TUNBRIDGE WELLS Assembly Hall 01892 530613
Tues 3rd SHREWSBURY Theatre Severn 01743 281 281

more info available here at Speakers from the Edge

I will also be doing a similar presentation for the Royal Scottish Geographical Society in Aberdeen, Dundee, Stirling and Edinburgh. more info here http://www.rsgs.org/events/

Looking further ahead, 2013 is the 60th anniversary of the first ascent of Everest.  It is also the 25th anniversary of the Anglo-American-Canadian expedition Everest 88.

I am celebrating our wonderful Everest adventure by going to the other end of the world. Several people have already committed, but we still have one or two places left on the Everest 60/25 Antarctic Peninsula Expedition in February 2013.  Details at:

http://www.stephenvenables.com/expedition_2013_antarctic.asp

The following month, back in London, my American, Canadian and Nepalese companions and I are staging the first reunion for 25 years of the entire Everest 88 team.  The main public event will be a champagne reception, lecture and dinner at the RGS.  So please make a note in your diary:

14 March  2013

The Party of the Year

Royal Geographical Society

London

With very best wishes for 2012

Stephen"  

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ME Pro partner Stephen Venables... "2013 will be the 60th anniversary of the first ascent of Everest. It will also be the 25th anniversary of our 1988 Anglo - American - Canadian Kangshung Face expedition, which Reinhold Messner described as ‘probably the most adventurous in Everest history’ (and no we didn’t pay him to say that).

I intend to celebrate our Silver Jubilee in style, starting with a trip to the Antarctic Peninsula. Skip Novak, with whom I have already led two expeditions to South Georgia, has agreed to be co-leader of the Antarctic expedition, and make his 22.5m yacht Pelagic Australis available for a four weeks charter from Ushuaia. 

Yacht-based skiing and climbing is one of life’s great adventures; doing it on the Antarctic Penisula is as good as it gets. With eight berths available on Pelagic Australis, there will be scope for both keen Skier/mountaineers and people who would just like to come for the sailing, scenery and wildlife.

The dates: February 1st to February 28th 2013 plus a couple of days each end travelling to and from Ushuaia. We are still working on the detailed plan and prices, which I will send in my next newsletter. In the meantime, please allow yourself to be tempted by this trip of a lifetime, and tell anyone else who may be interested."

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Images - South Georgia 2008 expedition - Stephen Venables Collection

Stephen Venables: In the Steps of Shackleton 2011 Tour

Mountain Equipment Pro partner Stephen Venables will be on the road again in January/February 2011 touring 17 venues around the UK with his lecture "In the Steps of Shackleton".



In the last ten years, internationally acclaimed mountaineer Stephen Venables has twice repeated Sir Ernest Shackleton’s famous crossing of South Georgia. Using his highly acclaimed photos and natural gifts as a storyteller, Stephen brings Shackleton’s treacherous expedition across Antarctica to life, retelling this fascinating tale of escape and survival - one of the last great epics of exploration.
“Fast-paced, gripping, witty and full of fascinating historical background.” Sir Chris Bonington
DATES & VENUES
JANUARY

Fri 28th WAKEFIELD Theatre Royal Wakefield 01924 211 311Sat 29th PITLOCHRY Festival Theatre 01796 484626
FEBRUARY

Tue 1st INVERNESS Eden Court 01463 234234Thu 3rd KIRKCALDY Adam Smith Theatre 01592 58 33 02Sun 6th SOUTHEND Palace Theatre 01702 351135Mon 7th BIRMINGHAM Town Hall Birmingham 0121 7803333Wed 9th CHESTERFIELD The Winding Wheel 01246 345 334Thu 10th SALFORD The Lowry 0843 2080 6010Sat 12th LLANDUDNO Venue Cymru 01492 872000Wed 16th MIDDLESBROUGH Middlesbrough Theatre 01642 729729Fri 18th FELIXSTOWE Spa Pavilion 01394 282126Sat 19th ST ALBANS The Maltings Arts Theatre 01727 844 222Mon 21st OXFORD Town Hall 0114 2508048Tue 22nd CREWE Crewe Lyceum 01270 537333Wed 23rd RADLETT The Radlett Centre 01923 859291Thu 24th BRECON Theatre Brycheiniog 01874 611622Sat 26th ILFRACOMBE Landmark Theatre 01271 32 42 42
additional information is available at www.speakersfromtheedge.com
you also check out Stephen's latest expedition report and photos from South Georgia at his blog here