January 28th 2012 - Lecture at Rheged, Lake District England

The story of the hardest multipitch route in the UK, The Longhope route and some of my other best adventures with plenty of great pictures, video and stories. Tickets available here.

 

February 3rd 2012 - Claire MacLeod lecture, Roy bridge

Claire will be speaking about her adventures in a lecture called ‘The other end of the rope’ at the Roy Bridge Memorial Hall, 7.30pm on Tuesday February 3rd. Tickets  £4/£2 at the door and food and tea available on the night! Claire will be speaking about various diverse activities such as jumping out of planes, making mountain films, TV presenting and holding the rope for some of the most dangerous rock climbs on the planet.

 

February 8th 2012 - Lecture at royal geographical society, london, england

I spent three summers training and attempting to free climb the Long Hope route on Britain's biggest sea cliff, St John's Head, Orkney. The 1400 foot climb is now one of the hardest climbs of it's type in the world, with the additional challenges of loose sandstone, vomiting seabirds and a complicated approach along the remote coastline of Hoy. Climbing with fellow professional climber Andy Turner, we successfully completed the ascent in June 2011, taking ten hours. Myself and Andy will tell the story of our ascent and award winning mountain filmmaker Paul Diffley will present the film 'The Long Hope'. Tickets available in our shop here.

 

February 17th 2012 - Climbing coaching sessions at Fort William Mountain Festival

On Friday 17th of Feb I’m running some daytime climbing technique masterclasses at the Ice Factor in Kinlochleven as part of the Fort William Mountain Festival. The sessions will be 2 hours long and there will be 6 spaces on each session. I’ll give you a fairly intense couple of hours of climbing technique advice, coaching and inspiration! To take part you have to be a climber and be used to a climbing wall, but it doesn’t matter what level you are at. You’ll learn a lot whether you are climbing at a fairly basic level or a pretty serious climber.

The sessions will take place at 10am-12pm, 12.30pm-2.30pm and 3pm- 5pm. It costs £35 per climber (pay on the day) as well as your normal climbing wall entry fee at the Ice Factor. I get a lot of requests to give coaching and these classes will fill up pretty fast so give Claire a ring on 07813 060376 to book your place quick!

That evening at the festival is the mountaineering evening with showings of the brilliant film ‘Vertical Sailing’ about big wall exploring in Greenland and also the Longhope film about my own mini-big wall climb on Orkney.