High Sports

Celebrities @ High Sports

These are some of the famous faces who have passed through our door, given their time to help raise funds for the Youngsters in the Mountains and entertained us with their awesome stories over the years.

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“The local Spotters” for the last 09/10 Lecture Series. From the left: Adam Booth, Paul Martin, Charlie Leventon, Stuart Cathcart, Dave Barker and Alastair Tye with the young Olivia Taylor (Youngster in the Mountains Award winner) on his right.

Pat Winterton.  ‘Confined to the Cockpit’ lecture, February 2nd 2010. An epic Kayak Adventure from Wales to the Faroe Islands. Very Inspiring!

Stuart Cathcart of High Sports presenting Beverly Jones with a Patagonia Nano Puff Sweater, the main raffle prize at the Helliker and Bracey  lecture, part of the Winter Lecture Series 09/10 in aid of the YM Fund.

Tim Emmett & Leo Houlding. “The Wild Boys” lecture, December 9th 2009. A sensational and very funny Double Act presentation which definitely inspired even the most serious of extreme audience. These guys are for sure, not only walking on the wild side of life, but base jumping from it too. Awesome.

Matt Helliker & Jon Bracey had just meltdown the audience yesterday night with their great lecture, the second one of our winter series for this season. Amazing mountaineering and ice climbing stories about their new routes in Alaska; slide shows and videos of these adventures leave us, once again, very inspired. “Meltdown Alaska” lecture. November 26th 2009.

Steve Sustad, One of the world’s most outstanding yet elusive climbers until now! Life and death solo struggles in The Andes, major sea cliffs with Pat Littlejohn, the Himalyan giants: Shivling, Changabang, Broad Peak with Scott, Whillans and Fowler, new climbs in Ethiopia, Kenya and more. An awesome and very inspiring lecture ” This and That” November 3rd 2009.

John Beatty, a very talented outdoor photographer, an incredible modest yet seriously motivated man with amazing stories to talk about… “Wild Vision” lecture. February 3rd 2009.

Dave Macleod, the man that keep appearing in pretty much all climbing related magazines, from ice to boulders to award winning films.  ”Eco Wall”, another exclusive lecture. January 6th 2009.

Mick Fowler the Alpine master keeps impressing the world as well as the audience with his extraordinary talks. Lectures such as “Mind Over Matter” December 10th 2003, “On Thin Ice” February 14th 2006 and “Vasuki Parvat” December 3rd 2008 are just an example of how to keep the audience with their mouths wide open for over two hours.

Andy Kirkpatrick always with his psycho laugh, here he is after the psycho lecture “Psycho Vertical”. November 4th 2008.

Martin Moran who impressed us all with his incredible and full of adrenaline lecture “All Year’s Work”. January 8th 2008.

Gaz Parry national and international competition champion, also famed for exploring and establishing hard new routes on remote big walls, Greenland, Venezuela… and Madagascar. Another great lecture ”Mad in Madagascar” December 4th 2007.

Tim Emmett, Star of the BBC ‘Extreme Climbs’ programme. Climber, surfer, sky diver and now combining big wall climbing with base jumping descents…What is next? He is back this year (2009) with Leo Holding for sure another great lecture. This picture was taken at the “Para Alpinism - A New Era” lecture on November 6th 2007. From left to right: Ali Cathcart, Ed Booth, Simon Cathcart, Tim Emmett, Angus Kille and Sam Robson.

Neil Gresham needs no introduction, well known for his unique “Masterclass” DVD and his book “Preposterous tales”, Neil’s passion for his sport has kept him at the forefront of the world climbing for many years. Lecture “My Top Ten” March 6th 2007.

Alastair Lee after his awesome lecture “Storms of Laughter”. February 6th 2007.