Programme
update 25 July 2024
We hope to have details the full programme up on the website by early August, with the printed version of the brochure following this later, but here is some information on our exciting speaker lineup for Friday and Saturday
Friday Evening 6th December 2024
Jenny Graham is a Scottish endurance cyclist. In 2018 she became the fastest woman to cycle around the world unsupported.Jenny is part of the Adventure Syndicate (a collective of female endurance cyclists) and a member of Cycling UK. She started cycling in 2004,[2] and was introduced to ultra-distance racing when planning a bike trip to Romania, after coming across the Highland Trail 550.
In 2017, she was awarded an Adventure Syndicate training bursary place where she met cycling coach John Hampshire. He trained her for a year for free after seeing her potential. After this, she cycled the 750 mile Arizona Trail Race, finishing sixth.
With the Adventure Syndicate, she cycled Land’s End to John o’Groats in four days over New Year, spending about 20 hours on the bike each day and mostly riding in the dark. She described the attempt as “brutal” and “absolutely disgusting”.
Saturday Morning 7th December 2024
Alex Roddie is a professional editor and award-winning outdoor writer. He is editor of Sidetracked magazine and an author with Vertebrate Publishing and gestalten, and he writes features, op-ed and gear reviews for The Great Outdoors magazine. His writing focuses on mountains and wild places – their wonder and mystery, nature and adventure, but also their culture.
Alex has been an active backpacker, mountaineer and hillwalker for over 20 years. Since 2015 he has been a passionate long-distance walker and has completed many classic trails, including the Cape Wrath Trail (summer and winter), Tour of Monte Rosa, Haute Route Pyrenees, Toubkal Circuit, and a fastpacking traverse of the Alps. He is based in Scotland with his wife Hannah.
At Dundee he will talk about his adventures on the Cape Wrath Trail in winter, which he has also written about in his book “The Furthest Shore”.
Saturday Afternoon 7th December 2024
Anna Wells is a climber and mountaineer. She has an insatiable appetite for moving in the mountains and loves gigantic days out combining multisport activities of rock climbing, paragliding, cycling, swimming and running. Anna has a background in competitive ice climbing, winning multiple national titles and representing Great Britain on the World Cup Circuit. She set FKTs on the Cuillin Ridge in both summer and winter and has climbed 55 of the 82 4000m peaks in the Alps. She has rock climbed all over the world from El Capitan in Yosemite to the desert towers of Wadi Rum.
During the last few years Anna has sought adventure closure to home and fallen deeply in love with all that Scotland has to offer. In March 2024, she became the first woman and fourth person to complete a “Winter Munro Round”, climbing all 282 Munros in a single winter season. She achieved the feat in just 83 days, equalling the record set by Martin Moran in 1985. From breathtaking sunrises atop snow-covered peaks to long lonely nights battling through blizzards, the challenge demanded a robust combination of technical skill, physical endurance and mental resilience.
At Dundee, Anna will talk about the highs and lows of her epic journey and explore the fundamental life lessons learned along the way. The kindness of strangers and support from friends was ultimately key to the success and joy of an unforgettable winter.
Saturday Evening 7th December 2024
Mick Fowler balanced holding a full time job with being a family man and a leading figure in the climbing world for over 40 years. He continues to climb despite a cancer problem which resulted in removal of his anus and rectum in 2018.
In the UK he is renowned as a leading adventure climber with numerous ground breaking first ascents on chalk, shale, sea stacks, London drainpipes and other cliffs not previously viewed as suitable for climbing. He was one of the first to rock climb at E6 level (Linden, Derbyshire 1976) and winter climb at Grade VI level (Shield Direct, Ben Nevis 1979.) He has been a regular expedition climber since 1982, specialising in technically challenging, eye catching lines on peaks between 6000m and 7000m.
He was voted the Mountaineers’ Mountaineer in the Observer newspaper, has won three Piolet d’Or awards (the Oscars of the mountaineering world) and has been awarded the King Albert Medal for mountain achievement. He has also written four books about his climbs and won several literary awards.
Until retiring in January 2017 all his climbing was done in his holidays from his job in the UK tax office where he held the position of Assistant Director of Shares and Assets Valuation.
He has served as President of the Alpine Club and is a Patron of the British Mountaineering Council and an Honorary Fellow of the University of Cumbria. He lives in Derbyshire with his wife Nicki. They have two grown up children.
Mick’s talk at Dundee will include a brief summary of his climbing life and then focus on his latest expedition; a most memorable, near disastrous, attempt on Patkhor (6083m) the highest peak in the Rushan Pamir range in Tajikistan, with Simon Yates.
Film Submission
Although we do not have a film competition, we welcome approaches from film makers wishing to consider using the Dundee Mountain Film Festival as a showcase for their films. We often have representatives from other film festivals and film makers attending the DMFF.
Our closing date for film submissions is now passed
Contact email for films is allan@dmff.org.uk