Past Events
“The Man Who Cycled The World” - Marc Beaumont
Date - 12th March 2009
Time - 7pm with talk starting around 7:15/7:30
Venue - Buchanan Lecture Theatre
Tickets sold on the door.
Price: ExpAnd Members = £2 / Students = £3 / Public = £5 (Alternatively membership + entry = £5)
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Biography: At the age of 12 Mark Beaumont cycled across Scotland from Dundee to Oban, but only after his mother persuaded him that Land’s End to John o’ Groats was a long way!
However aged 15 he tackled the 1038 miles from John O’Groats to Lands End and completed his first solo ride which raised £3,000 for Charity. After graduating from Glasgow University with a degree in Economics and Politics Mark decided to follow his dream and spent a year planning and training to become the fastest person to cycle round the world.
On Friday 15th February at 1530, he completed his 18,000 miles circumnavigation of the globe by bicycle and arrived back at the Arc de Triomphe 194 days and 17 hours after leaving there on 5th August 2007. The total distance cycled was 18,297 miles through 20 countries. Guinness World Records have verified all the data and confirmed Mark as the new Guinness World Record holder by a margin of 81 days.
Paul Rose
Paul Rose
Explorer- Field Work Expert- Expedtion Leader- Speaker- BBC TV Presenter
November 6th, Buchanan Lecture Theatre (Map), 7pm £2 (members)/£4 (Public) Donation.
“Paul is a BBC TV Presenter - credits include Scrapheap Challenge, Take One Museum, Meltdown, Voyages of Discovery, Oceans, and live appearances on BBC Breakfast, BBC 24 News, Sky News, Border News, national and local radio, US National radio.He is a very experienced and popular public speaker, field logistics expert, polar guide, professional diver and instructor, mountaineer and yacht skipper”.
It is an honour to have Paul as our guest for what is sure to be an unmissable talk! For more Information on Paul, visit his website at http://www.paulrose.org/
Antony Jinman
Polar explorer - Expedition Leader
October 22nd ,School 1 St Salvator’s Quad,7pm, £2 (members)/£4 (no-members) Donation
Antony Jinman, 26, is an experienced expedition and International Mountain Leader. He just recently returned from an expedition crossing the Penny Ice Cap of Baffin Island. Read more about Antony’s adventures at:
Explore - expedition & fieldwork planning weekend
Friday 21, Saturday 22 - Sunday 23 November 2008
Lectures, workshops and exhibits cover planning and carrying out projects in variety of environments and research disciplines.
The annual expedition and fieldwork planning seminar. Lectures, workshops,
and exhibits throughout the weekend cover the details of planning scientific
and adventurous projects in variety of environments and research
disciplines. Over 100 of Europe’s leading field scientists and explorers
will cover topics including project management, field research techniques,
fundraising, health and safety, insurance, and the logistics of living and
working in rainforest, polar, marine, desert and mountain environments.
Website : http://www.rgs.org/HomePage.htm
YET Expedition Leaders Planning Course 2008
| This annual course is open to anyone who is intending, hoping, or even just interested in leading youth expeditions, either in the UK or abroad. |
| Programme: The course will offer instruction in expedition planning, in selecting members and leaders, in choosing equipment, in organising food requirements, in the pre-expedition training of the expedition members, in the management of a leader team in the field, in budgeting, in insurance and fundraising, in risk assessment, in all aspects of safety procedures, in project work, and in the essential environmental obligations of a wild country expedition. Course participants will be given the opportunity to discuss their own expedition plans with the Course Staff, who are all experienced expeditioners well-known to YET. Accommodation is in multi-bedded rooms.Cost: £88 (10% discount available to YET members) to include: full board from coffee on Saturday to tea on Sunday, all course materials, all seminars and lectures. Non-residential course attendees are welcome, at a cost of £75, which covers everything above except accommodation and Sunday breakfast.
Dates: 29 - 30 November 2008 Website: http://www.theyet.org/event.php Conville Winter CoursesThe two day courses based in the Cairngorms are delivered by Jonathan Preston IFMGA, and based at Ardenbeg Outdoor Centre in Grantown-on-Spey. The Conville courses are aimed at those who have not done any sort of course in the winter mountains before, but are experienced summer hill walkers and climbers. These courses are specially designed to give a sound introduction to the techniques needed for moving on snow and ice - both in Britain in winter and in the Alps. The course will include use of crampons and ice axes, belaying and rope work, avalanche assessment, navigation and other topics related to the winter mountains. Heavily subsidised by the Jonathan Conville Memorial Trust (JCMT), the course costs just £60. This covers all food, accommodation, equipment, in-course transportation and professional instruction. |