Talk by the renowned mountaineer, climber, extreme sports athlete Tim Emmett on Monday 11th April, at 7pm, at Newcastle Royal Grammar School.
All proceeds for the evening are going to Teesdale Mountain Rescue group.
Tickets are £10 and booked through myself (G Dunn 07725087029), or Jill Graham on j.graham@rgs.newcastle.sch.uk or 0191 212 8930
Here is a brief biog if this needs any further selling!
Tim is a professional extreme sports athlete=, well known for his charismatic and enthusiastic and energy charged lectures. His passion for rock and ice climbing has taken him all over the world developing new areas and styles. He has competed in the ice climbing world cup 2001 – 2004 and poduimed 3 times, and written a book – “preposterous tales” with Neil Gresham (rated 10/10 by the website Planet Fear).
His face has appeared on front of numerous climbing magazines and he has made several television appearances, including BBC2 Wild Climbs, HTV Moments of Fear and Top Gear. He has also filmed in many documentaries such as Psicobloc – one of the most dynamic and eye-catching climbing films ever produced – winning 6 awards in 2004.
He has also presented a climbing documentary Ultimate Rock Climbs on BBC1 in 2007.
Ice climbing, snowboarding, surfing, scuba diving, kickboxing and most recently BASE jumping are all facets of his extreme quest for all out adventure, and to push the boundaries of psychological and physical performance.
His latest focus has become climbing newest cult – Para-Alpinism. This entails climbing a big wall with a BASE rig on and then jumping off, into freefall
Truly unique, he is a speaker not to be missed.
Tim Emmett Talk on Monday 11th April
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Re: Tim Emmett Talk on Monday 11th April
Please support this event raising money for your local mountain rescue team. Have heard he is a good speaker too!
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Re: Tim Emmett Talk on Monday 11th April
Just to remind you that this is raising money for a very good cause. This guy is pretty cool, there is a you tube video (don't know how to do links!) of him doing a ridiculously hard first ascent in winter in Coire an Lochain. 