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The Big Sell Out
— 21/12/08 Comments - 0
Finished the adverts and posters this week for Tim Emmett, Karen Darke and Simon Yates tours in 09 (not having enough to do - I also a co-own the speaking agency Speakers from the Edge with my long suffering partner Rebecca Varley). I’ve never really…
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Radio Day
— 18/12/08 Comments - 0
Had a hectic day yesterday, running around London talking on BBC Radio 4’s midweek and then the World Service’s Outlook program. As anyone who read’s this blog over the last few months will know, my biggest ambition these days is a good nights sleep, but talking the night before at the RCA,…
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Trevor Baylis
— 12/12/08 Comments - 0
Was listening on the radio tonight about kids - many the same age as my daughter - talking about the stress of sitting the 11 plus in order to get onto a grammar school, and how their parents (well the better off ones) pay tutors to help them make it through.
It’s the type of program you…
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Mates who don’t die
— 09/12/08 Comments - 0
Found out that Ian Parnell nearly bit the bullet last week in an avalanche - only being saved by the propeller from a Lancaster Bomber (yes that’s right). Glad he didn’t die - and jealous of his very funny story.
You read more about his epic
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Other Hills to Climb
— 04/12/08 Comments - 0
Here's an email I got last week - reminding me that what climbers do is not unique:
Hi Andy,
Last week I went to Dorking to hear you talk and thoroughly enjoyed the evening. I was hoping to buy a signed book before or after the show but there didn't seem to be such an opportunity.…
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The Over Flowing Bath
— 01/12/08 Comments - 0
Life feels a little like an overflowing bath at the moment, with many projects and jobs vying for my limited time.
Designing posters and adds for Speakers from the Edge today, fiddling with images and text for Simon Yates, Karen Darke and…
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Better than up a chimney
— 27/11/08 Comments - 0
Should you let your kids sit on that stage while you talk to 400 people at the Kendal Mountain Film Festival? Well my kids have climbed, walked, skied and kayaked (in the sea!), so why not go for the whole experience and get them on stage as well.
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The Big Sell Out
— 26/11/08 Comments - 0
Just tried to order more books to sell at talks and via the website and told the're having to reprint, which is great news. So thanks to everyone who's bought a copy (it'll take a week to print more, so plenty of time left to get one for Xmas!)
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Turd Eye
— 25/11/08 Comments - 0
Ian Parnell said that although I have moments on comic genius (like Andy Parkin the musical), I often fall back on more base comic tales of people crapping themselves - well at my Kendal show anyway. To be honest I did have something a little more high brow to show, but I hadn’t finished it, and winning…
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Taken to Boardman-Tasker
— 24/11/08 Comments - 0
When I used to stay at my dad’s house in Wales, every night I’d pick one of his climbing books and flick through it; Touching the Void, One man’s Mountains and The White Spider. But of all these books the one that stood out, and the only climbing book I’ve read cover to cover - and more than…
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North Pole race
— 19/11/08 Comments - 0
Read an interesting link from Ben Saunders site about a South Pole Tips PDF from the guys running the South Pole Marathon this year. It's short but interesting, and made me think again about…
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Secrets
— 17/11/08 Comments - 0
Spent the last few months contemplating a big solo climb - without doubt the hardest route I’ve ever done. It can’t say what it is because it’s a secret.
It’s a secret for a number of reasons.
If I tell people my secret they may stop me with either kinds words or bad.
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Germs
— 12/11/08 Comments - 0
It’s 10 am - Wednesday - and I’m sat sniffling on the settee.
My daughter Ella’s laid in bed ill with cold, my recovering son Ewen packed off to school. The house full of germs. I’ve still half a dozen talks to do (including the Kendal Film and book festivals), and have to somehow…
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Stories added to site
— 10/11/08 Comments - 0
Trying to make this site more than just a business card, so added some past stories (inlcuding some A-Z pieces from Climb magazine). Will add more as I dig them up!
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Music of the spheres
— 09/11/08 Comments - 0
People have asked - so here's a little youtube vid of my end music from the show. Hope you enjoy it!
