Fiva, An Adventure That Went Wrong - 5.30pm Sunday 21st October

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Writer, photographer, film editor and philosopher GORDON STAINFORTH will be giving an illustrated talk about his new book, 'Fiva: An Adventure That Went Wrong', which tells the epic true story of a near-death experience on a mountain in Norway in 1969.

Fiva (pronounced 'Fever') is Gordon's first foray into literature and is receiving rave reviews from readers on Amazon as well as from top-class mountaineers and has just been short-listed for the prestigious 2012 Boardman-Tasker Prize- the Man-Booker of the mountaineering world.

Joe Simpson, best-selling author of 'Touching the Void' said:  "Wonderful, nostalgic, gripping, classic epic yarn with great humour deserves to win many many awards - read it :)"

Stephen Venables, author of 'Higher than the Eagle Soars' said: "[Fiva is] the most intelligent disaster story to appear for years...At last - an exciting, intelligent, humorous disaster story by someone who can write English. The late sixties period detail is lovely. So, too, is the nail-biting denouement. And, actually, it isn't really a disaster story at all: it's all about using courage, initiative, comradeship and a large dollop of luck to escape from a nasty situation."

A climber of 40 years' experience, Gordon only gave up climbing five years ago when a 'macular pucker' forced him to call it a day.

Not wishing to give too much of the story away for anyone who hasn't read the book, he'll also be talking about his early climbing career leading up to the Fiva epic, with many original images and even some Super-8 movie film taken at the time.

Gordon will also talk about his 40th anniversary return trip to Romsdal in 2009, which gave him the idea of writing the book. Finally he will discuss what we mean by Adventure, and point out that Fiva was not so much 'an adventure that went wrong' - because the Stainforth twins returned to tell the tale ? but that it was an ADVENTURE with capital letters.

Signed copies of Gordon's acclaimed book Fiva will be available to buy at the event.  If you can't wait til then you can buy copies of Fiva on Amazon.

You can also listen back to Gordon talking to Andy Potter on BBC Radio Derby.

Following Gordon's talk will be a pair of acclaimed and award-winning films:

50 YEARS IN THE MOUNTAINS. British outdoor gear manufacturer Mountain Equipment have participated in every British first ascent of an 8000m peak and been part of more than 175 Everest summits.

To celebrate their 50th anniversary, they've filmed the personal reflections of some of the world's most significant mountaineers together with rare archive footage charting the past 50 years of mountaineering history. (20 mins)