Speakers
The original 'Serious Adventure' Speakers Portfolio.
Through a combination of personal and professional relationships Heason Events has built up the most comprehensive network of Serious Adventure Speakers anywhere on the planet. If the person you are looking for is not on this list please contact us and ask us anyway - we probably know them, or will be able to track them down.
Alastair Lee
Eh up, its Burnley born and based outdoor photographer and climber Alastair Lee who’s spent the past decade travelling & climbing around the world. His passion for foreign cultures and wild places is best expressed through his superb photography and film making.
Andy Cave
For 20 years Andy Cave has been exploring the remote mountain ranges of the world, establishing desperate new routes. Andy was recently voted one of the top three all round climbers in Britain. He is an experienced public speaker and has a PhD in linguistics.
Andy Kirkpatrick
One of Andy’s biggest strengths is his ability to talk about his life and climbs in a style that is totally accessible to the non climber, translating even the most technical of ascent into a form that will have even the non climber’s hands sweating.
Anne Arran
Professional climbers, photographers, journalists and coaches as well as international election and IT consultants. Both Anne and John Arran have been pushing the boundaries of the sport for some time, in recent years applying their top-level free-climbing skills to big walls in some of the remotest parts of the world.
Ben Heason
Professional rock climber world renowned for his bold climbing and, more recently, his exploits on big walls around the world.
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Dave MacLeod
“A living legend. One of the best climbers of all time to come out of Scotland and the UK. More than that he gives us a unique insight into his psyche, his reasons, his motivation, his training, his trials and tribulations” Mick Ryan, UKclimbing.com
Dave Pickford
David Pickford is an acclaimed outdoor photographer and writer, and the...
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Doug Scott
A true legend. Doug was the first Britain to climb Mt Everest and has partaken in more expeditions to the greater ranges than virtually anybody else alive. He has an enviable track record of major corporate and business lectures, with a full complement of satisfied clients.
Eric Jones
Eric has participated in extreme sports worldwide for over 45 years, his motto is -- Life is adventure or nothing at all.
Gary Gibson
Controversial, enigmatic and strong-willed, Gary has been new-routing for a very long time and has irritated almost everybody by doing it by challenging the field of ethical debate from day one.
Ian Parnell
Professional mountaineer, photographer and journalist as well as artist, comedian and music lover.
With his magnificent photography and supremely bold approach to mountaineering in the greater ranges, including summiting Everest in 2005, Ian puts on a show that few can match.
James Pearson
Everybody has the potential to climb well; all it takes is some good advice and a push in the right direction.
Jamie Andrew
In January 1999 mountaineers Jamie Andrew and Jamie Fisher were trapped for five nights on the storm bound icy summit of a French mountain. Their rescue, which was one of the most dramatic in the history of the Alps, came only hours too late to save Fisher. Andrew, despite suffering hypothermia and appalling frostbite, survived. Days later all four of his hands and feet were amputated.
For many this fate would have meant the end of all hope, but not for Jamie. Since losing his hands and feet he has learned to walk again, taken up skiing, run a marathon, and returned to climb once more in the mountains that he loves so much.
Jamie Andrew's incredible story of determination and courage is nothing short of inspirational.
Jerry Gore
Some things are beyond imagination. When Jerry Gore describes life clinging to a 4,000ft cliff in sub-zero temperatures in one of the remotest corners of the earth, pure white virgin territory, the mind reels at trying to conjure up the image. Yet this is only one of two worlds that Jerry frequently inhabits. His other world is definitely one we all know: the office, board meetings, deadlines and daily challenges.
John Arran
Professional climbers, photographers, journalists and coaches as well as international election and IT consultants. Both Anne and John Arran have been pushing the boundaries of the sport for some time, in recent years applying their top-level free-climbing skills to big walls in some of the remotest parts of the world.
John Dunne
John Dunne is one of the strongest and most notorious climbers on the current climbing scene. He is infamous for pushing climbing grades into new realms of difficulty, including classic routes which are seldom repeated because of their potentially fatal nature. His sometimes controversial climbing career has seen him dominating the headlines on many occasions making him one of the most outstanding and committed all round climbers in the world.
Johnny Dawes
Johnny Dawes needs no introduction if you have heard of him! Not only was he the pioneer of the first E8 and E9 climbs in the world in 1986 he also broke new ground in establishing how the sport was seen and practiced.
Pat Littlejohn
Pat has long been one of Britain's most active climbing pioneers, specialising in sea cliffs, with around 1500 first ascents to his credit, many of which have become nationally famous classics.
Simon Yates
Simon first came to prominence as a mountaineer in 1985 after the first ascent of the West Face of Siula Grande in the Peruvian Andes and the ensuing epic descent described in Joe Simpson’s book ‘Touching the Void’ and the 2003 BAFTA wining docu-drama film. However, this event has actually been a relatively small, if dramatic, part of a hugely enjoyable climbing career.
Sir Chris Bonington
Chris Bonington is more than Britain's best known mountaineer. He is a writer, a lecturer and now one of the country's leading motivational speakers for business.
Sir Ranulph Fiennes
The World's Greatest Living Explorer - Guinness Book Of Records
My admiration for Ran is unbounded and thank God he exists. The world would be a far duller place without him - HRH Prince Charles
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Stephen Venables
Stephen Venables has a great range of lecture topics drawn from forty years experience of walking, skiing and climbing all over the world. Although he has pioneered extremely hard new climbs, for him the journey to the foot of the mountain is often as enthralling as the actual climb.
Steve McClure
Professional rock climber, British indoor climbing champion and one of the strongest sport climbers in the world
Tom Clowes
Both Tom and his brother suffered from frostbite in minus 60 degrees and Tom was hallucinating on the way up believing someone was letting off fireworks from the ‘Balcony’! This turned out to be a couple of headtorches.
