2013 programme

Each day we present five different speakers from the worlds of adventure, sport and travel. 
Each 2 hour session includes a lecture with photos, videos and Q&A followed by a selection of adventure films.
  Tickets are £10 per session with multi-buy savers available.

NEW FOR 2013 - ALL WEEKEND - 'ADVENTURE BITES' LOOP

An hour-long, family friendly loop of 11 action-packed, short adventure sports films.
Showing all day Saturday and Sunday in the Studio Theatre. 
Only £4 for adults and £2 for children and students.

  Saturday 2nd November Sunday 3rd November
  Young Adventurers
Extreme Mountain Biking
Young Adventurers
Free Running - Urban Acrobatics
10.30am

Multiple British trials bike champion Danny Butler travels the country with his Extreme Mountain Bike Show demonstrating his team's hair-raising skills on two wheels.

One of his intrepid team of top stunt mountain-bikers will be bringing their bike along to Buxton to show off their tricks. 

Free runners move around by running up walls, jumping between buildings, doing backflips down staircases, seeing objects as opportunities not obstacles. 

Ahmed from Action in Motion will showcase his amazing acrobatic skills and explain the philosophy behind parkours. 

 

Hill Walking
Going Long & Staying Strong

Heather Dawe
A Personal Obsession with Mountains

12.30pm British Mountain Club Hill Walking Officer Carey Davies in conversation with Chris Townsend - outdoor writer and photographer and one of the world's most prolific long-distance walkers.

Chris's walks include the 3,100-mile Continental Divide Trail and the first ever continuous walk of the 517 Scottish Munros.
Ultra-runner, climber and cyclist and now author and artist Heather Dawe explores her drive to keep pushing herself harder and harder.

Heather has competed and won at Elite level in many mountain marathons like the LAMM and the OMM and has run the Bob Graham Round in under 22 hours. In 2008 she won the renowned Three Peaks Cyclo-cross. 

 

British Mountain Guides
Passion & Professionalism on the Peaks

Jez Bragg
Running the Length of New Zealand

3pm

Three talks compered by fellow guide James Thacker with an audience Q&A.

Mark Walker: Mixing and Matching - A Season Ski Touring Across the European Alps

Jon Morgan: Chamonix Zermatt Haute Route on Skis: A Purist's Version

Al Powell: Ski Mountaineering in Greenland - Exploring the Arctic Wilderness on Dogsleds & Skis

Ultra-runner Jez Bragg successfully completed New Zealand?s arduous Te Araroa Trail, from top to bottom of both islands, in just 53 days - 9 days quicker than the previous record for running the length of the country.

The 3,054km route also involved Jez kayaking across the notoriously dangerous Cook Strait, 120km down the Whanganui River and numerous other river and estuary crossing over the course of the expedition.
  Juliana Buhring
The Fastest Woman To Cycle the World
Rosie Swale Pope
The World's Longest Unsupported Run
5.30pm

On December 22, 2012, Juliana Buhring set the first ever Guinness World Record for Fastest Woman to Circumnavigate the World by Bicycle.

Juliana?s 18,060 mile journey took her across four continents and nineteen countries, in a total time of 152 days and 144 actual days pedaled.

Global Adventurer Rosie Swale-Pope is the only person in world history to have undertaken an epic solo, unsupported run around our world - over 20,000 miles facing extreme danger, bitter Siberian winters, wolves, axmen and desolate loneliness over nearly five years. 

Her book 'Just a Little Run Around the World' is an international best-seller.

  Annie Last
Team GB Mountain Biker

Jason Lewis
Round the World by Human Power

8pm

Bakewell born Annie Last made her Olympic debut at the London 2012 Olympics, becoming the first woman to represent Great Britain in the mountain bike event for 12 years.

Leading the pack for the first lap, she finished in 8th place overall which was a great result for the developing rider.

In 2007 adventurer, author and sustainability activist Jason Lewis became the first person to circumnavigate the Earth without using motors or sails.

He walked, cycled and inline skated across five continents, kayaking, swimming, rowing, and pedalling a boat across the rivers, seas, and oceans.

Each session will include a selection of the world?s best adventure sports films which we'll announce in September.
Also photo exhibition, family activities, junior aquathlon, alpine workshop and more.


 

 

 


  Thanks to all our 2013 sponsors and supporters:  

Buxton Adventure Festival: A celebration of the very best speakers and films from the world of adventure travel & sport, at the heart of Derbyshire's Peak District.  Stories of intrepid expeditions, challenges and races paired with epic films of climbs, runs and rides for outdoor enthusiasts, weekend warriors and armchair adventurers.  Brought to you by Heason Events - organisers of the Sheffield Adventure Film Festival and Cliffhanger Outdoors Festival

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