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• Directions to the Venues

• Tickets

Jenny Pugh – Arctic Foxes

• London - Thursday 15th January 2009
• Ratho - Wednesday 21st January 2009
• Glasgow - Thursday 22nd January 2009
• Full details

Jamie Andrew – Life and Limb

• Ratho - Wednesday 11th Feb 2009
• Glasgow - Thursday 12th Feb 2009
• Full details

Dr Pete Talling - China’s Deepest Caves

• London - Thursday 12th Feb 2009
• Full details

Glasgow Mountain Film Festival

• Thursday 5th March 2009

London Mountain Film Festival

• Saturday 7th March 2009

TICKETS

If you want to take advantage of our advance purchase price then please use one of the following methods of payment. We will keep full details of your order and have your tickets ready for you when you arrive at the event.

For tickets to events in Edinburgh please purchase either in person at EICA (Ratho) reception or over the phone by telephoning EICA reception on 0131 333 6333.

CHEQUES: Please email me with your order and I’ll give you the correct address to send cheques to: oliver@super7.co.uk. Please note that we do not send out tickets. Please include your email address with the cheque if you require confirmation of purchase.

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PAYPAL: Please paypal http://www.paypal.com/ the payment to oliver@super7.co.uk with a note of the location of the event that you want tickets for. We’ll email you confirmation of payment and have your tickets waiting for you at the door.

• London: 7.30 pm, Thursday 15th January 2009. £7 in advance, £8 on the door.
• EICA, Ratho: 7.30 pm, Wednesday 21st January 2009. £5.
• Glasgow: 7.30 pm, Thursday 22nd January 2009. £6.50 in advance, £7.50 on the door.

In 2006 the Arctic Foxes braved freezing temperatures to become the first British all-female team to cross the Greenland ice sheet. They covered 1100km from Kangerlussuaq in the west to Ammasillik in the east……and back again, walking up to 16 hours a day and dragging 50kg pulks loaded with their entire expedition kit.

Two years later, long enough for their feet to recover before becoming itchy again, Jenny and fellow Fox, Felicity, dusted off their pulks and headed for Lake Baikal in far eastern Siberia. Surrounded on all sides by pristine mountain ranges, Lake Baikal is the oldest, deepest and most ecologically unique lake in the world. It contains one fifth of the earth’s freshwater and in winter, when temperatures plummet as low as -50°C, the whole surface freezes with a thick layer of beautifully transparent ice. The pair spent 30 days on the ice travelling the length of the lake from Kultuk on the southern shore to Nizhneangarsk in the north, a distance of over 700km. Stopping at remote villages along the way they experienced Russian hospitality at its best and, as the month progressed, became increasingly proficient at chasing down frozen, raw, salted fish with vodka shots.

Come and listen to Jenny’s lively, compelling account of the highs and lows of both expeditions, accompanied by photos, film and music from these obscure parts of the world.

“We have already received a number of plaudits for your talk last evening. It was a wonderful and inspiring tour de force. I can see you joining the ranks of the inspirational speakers. You should get an agent!” Peter Lloyd Jones - Captain Scott Society

“It was great to hear such passion and commitment … refuels our faith in human endurance and spirit, especially of the female variety.” Kiehl’s

• EICA, Ratho: 7.30 pm, Wednesday 11th Feb 2009. £5.
• Glasgow: 7.30 pm, Thursday 12th Feb 2009. £7.00 in advance, £8.00 on the door.

Jamie Andrew is an astonishing individual. An unassuming hero who describes himself as an ordinary guy who just happens to have gone through extraordinary events.

In 1999 he survived for five days perched precariously on an icy ledge at the summit of an Alpine mountain while winds raged to 130 km per hour, and temperatures plummeted to minus 30 degrees Celsius. Despite hypothermia and severe frostbite, Jamie was still conscious as he was snatched from the ledge by the French Mountain Rescue Services in a daring and spectacular rescue that was tragically only hours too late to save his climbing partner.

Jamie survived the ordeal, but at great personal cost. Ten days later his hands and his feet, damaged beyond repair by the frostbite, were amputated. Many, including some of the medical staff who had fought so hard to save him, felt that this was a fate worse than death. Amazingly, three months later Jamie emerged from hospital, walking on prosthetic legs, having once again learnt to manage everyday tasks such as feeding, washing and dressing.

Since then Jamie has defied expectations by running the London Marathon, returning to climbing – using his own design of prosthetic ice axe, climbing Ben Nevis, revisiting the Alps, reaching the roof of Africa, and learning to ski, snowboard, sail and paraglide. His humble and unassuming manner, coupled with an uncrumpled positive attitude towards life and its challenges make Jamie an extraordinary example of bravery and determination. Jamie is an inspired speaker. He tells his story quite modestly yet with great passion, sincerity and humor. The result is a lecture which is at once gripping, inspiring and ultimately uplifting.

“*****”
“Brilliant”
“Moving and fascinating”
“The impact it had on all present, including myself, was profound”
“Jamie is a speaker who will inspire and move any audience, a truly remarkable achiever and human being”
“A powerful and inspiring presentation”
“Amazing”
“Inspirational and thought provoking”
“Incredible, courageous and positive”
“An inspiration to us all to live life to the full”
“A stark reminder of the power of positive thinking”
“An inspiring story, told in a very humble and unassuming way – testament to this was the incredible atmosphere in the hall as you kept the audience mesmerised!”
“Very powerful”

• London: 7.30 pm, Thursday 12th February 2009
• Tickets: £6.50 in Advance, £7.50 on the door

Pete Talling will shed light into the quirky world of cave exploration. He will try to show why he believes caves contain the most remote and beautiful places on Earth. Their beauty deriving in part from the commitment needed to reach them, and the knowledge that rescue after an accident would be rather tricky. Pete’s talk will chronicle the search for China’s deepest cave over a series of expeditions during the last five years. These expeditions recently found China’s first kilometre deep cave system and the world’s second largest underground pitch (a single drop of 517 metres). The search for China’s deepest caves is now spreading to more mountainous areas populated by colourful indigenous people. Pete’s expedition in summer 2008 will travel in the footsteps of an eccentric 1930’s botanist called Heinrich Mazzetti, who reported ‘gaping chasms in limestone like in his native Tyrol’. Pete will report on what lies within those chasms. Recent unrest in the Chinese provinces of Sichuan and Gansu will add to the difficulties faced by this 2008 expedition. Pete will finish by talking about exploration of world class caves much closer to home. Ogof Draenen in South Wales is the world’s 23rd longest cave in which the search for a “Mystery Streamway”, could double the length of the system.

• 2.30 – 10pm, Saturday 7th March 2009
• Full details available here from Jan 09

Glasgow Mountain Film Festival

• 5.30 – 9.30 pm, Thursday 5th March 2009
• Full details available here from Jan 09

LONDON:

Lecture Theatre 1,
Blackett Building, Department of Physics, Imperial College
Prince Consort Road (near the Royal Albert Hall)
Kensington, SW7 2BB

From the Royal Albert Hall go down the steps to the South (away from Hyde park) and onto Prince Consort Road. Turn right (West) and walk about 100m. The entrance to the Blackett lab is on your left at the end of the road.

The number 9, 10, 360, 70 and 52 buses stop very close to the Imperial College complex.

There are three nearby tube stations: South Kensington, Gloucester Road or High Street Kensington. South Kensington station is the nearest. There is also a tunnel that runs from South Kensington to the northern side of the science museum which is signposted Imperial College.

Parking is available at the Imperial College campus (charges apply) off Exhibition road just north of the Science Museum. Limited free parking is available just outside the Blackett lab and on Prince Consort Rd.

GLASGOW:

The Boyd Orr Theatre
University of Glasgow
University Avenue (Byres Road end), Glasgow
G12 8QQ

The lecture theatre is at the Byres Road end of University Avenue. Exit left from the Hillhead Subway stop and head south for about 75 yards on the Byres Road. At the junction with University Avenue turn left (East). The Boyd Orr Theatre is the modern building about 50 yards up University Avenue