Andy Cave is one of today’s
leading mountaineers with an outstanding track record of innovative,
exploratory and occasionally desperate climbs to his credit. In a remarkable
talk he returns to his early days, to tell how he quit the claustrophobic world
of coal mining for the open vista of first the Alps and then the world’s
Greater Ranges. His is a sweeping tale, from the bitter conflict of the 1984
Miner’s Strike, becoming one of the youngest ever to climb the North Face of
the Eiger and on to a terrifying climb up Changabang’s massive North Face.
