Saturday Evening
7 December 2024: 7pm – Tickets: £17
After a programme of three brilliant films, we are delighted to welcome Mick Fowler back to Dundee
Two Point Four
UK 2023: Director – Natasha Brooks – 20 minutes
Not your typical family holiday, but this is not your typical family. Leo Houlding, his wife Jess, their two children Freya (9yrs) and Jackson (5yrs) climb Norway’s national mountain (Stetind, near Narvik in the Arctic Circle), via a 2000ft big wall.
This film is presented with the support of TentMeals
Lost Connections
UK 2023: Directors – Ellie Green & Matt Green – 21 minutes
In Montane’s Lost Connections film, Alex Seghal and Calum Maclean embark on a human-powered journey through Knoydart, driven by curiosity and a passion for sustainable adventure. As they paddle and hike through the diverse landscape, a deeper connection with the land and Knoydart’s rich stories unfold. This light-footed adventure, is a reminder that sometimes the best journeys are the simplest.
After the film there will be a short Q & A session with the film makers Ellie Green and Matt Green.
This film is presented with the support of Montane.
Man of Arran
Ireland UK 2023: Director – Paul McCambridge – 20 minutes
Man of Arran is a love letter to humanity from a wise man – it’s a homage to the craggy, rugged, wild Irish coastline. A gentle celebration of empathy and humility from an 82-year-old swimmer pushing himself to impossible lengths in communion with nature and with compassion for a friend’s grief.
There are no stereotypes or cliches that chime effectively with this film but to connect with a few… It is uplifting, inspiring and beautiful.
There will be an interval at this part of the evening.
Mick Fowler – A most memorable, near disastrous, attempt on Patkhor (6083m) the highest peak in the Rushan Pamir range in Tajikistan.
Mick 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.
The talk will include a brief summary of my climbing life and then focus on my latest expedition with Simon Yates; a most memorable, near disastrous, attempt on Patkhor (6083m) the highest peak in the Rushan Pamir range in Tajikistan.