BAF 2012 Programme

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Each day we'll have five different speakers from the worlds of adventure, sport and travel. Each session will last about 2 hours and will include its own stories, photos and videos. Each session includes a selection of adventure films. For full details of speakers and films see our programme at a glance.
�	SATURDAY 20th October		SUNDAY 21st October
�	Daredevil Danny		Olympic Dreams
10.30am Young Adventurers		24 year old 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 - he's bringing his bike along to Buxton to show you some of his tricks.		17 year old, single amputee Maddie Thompson is the youngest member of the Team GB Paralympic Women's Wheelchair Basketball Squad.
�	Spirit of Adventure		Feet in the Clouds
12.30pm		Record breaking adventurer and mountaineer Squash Falcolner�solo paraglided from Mont Blanc and last year summited Mount Everest - only the weather stopped her jumping off the world's tallest mountain.�		As a southerner, fell-running seemed like an obscure and reckless northern pastime to journalist Richard Askwith but he got hooked on running up and down trackless mountains in all weathers and his book 'Feet in the Clouds' has become something of a cult classic.
�	Mapping the World's Water		Into Darkness
3pm		Kate Rew is founder of the Outdoor Swimming Society and author of Wild Swim, a photographic journey around some of the best swims across Britain.		Gavin Newman is one of the world?s leading cave divers and an award-winning film maker and photographer whose work includes filming for the BBC's iconic Planet Earth series.
�	Wild Vision		Fiva - An Adventure That Went Wrong
5.30pm		Internationally renowned nature, travel & adventure photographer, John Beatty's images capture the timeless rhythms of the natural environment, its beauty and simplicity and man?s place within it, celebrating the variety and magnificence of wild landscapes.		Gordon Stainforth - writer, photographer, film editor, philosopher and experienced climber - tells the tale of he and his twin brother's near escape on an ascent of Norway's long and dangerous 'Fiva Route'.
�	Adrenaline Junkie		Downhill Demon
8pm		This summer ex Para & pro stuntman Gary Connery became the first person ever to jump out of a helicopter and land without a parachute, using his wingsuit to land in a pile of cardboard boxes!	�	20 year old World Champion Downhill Mountain Bike rider Danny Hart - described as "the most technically gifted and stylish racer in the world" - cemented his title with a legendary wet weather run in Switzerland and is currently defending his title's rainbow stripe.