PROGRAMME

Sponsored by Cicerone Press, Climb, Bâton Wicks, The Ernest Press, Millrace Books, Ripping Yarns, Constable & Robinson, The Mountaineers, Canadian Council for the Arts, Arts Council England, K Village Outlet Centre, Cumbria Vision

10.20 Live music
10.30 Welcome
11.00 Geoff Powter: ‘Mountaineering and Madness’: We Cannot Fail: The fine line between adventure and madness
11.45 Stephen Venables on The Last Blue Mountain

12.30 LUNCH and book signings in the Malt Room

2.00 Charles Lind: An Afterclap of Fate: Mallory on Everest
2.20 in conversation with Geoff Powter and Julie Summers
2.45 Jeff Long: The Wall
3.15 The Festival Scholarship Reading: Jan Levi, tutored by Jeff Long
3.30 Ed Douglas: ‘A Great Effort: On Drive and Detachment’
4.00 Panel chaired by Ed Douglas: ‘The Madness of the Dead and the Sanity of the Survivors?’ Vicki Robinson, Geoff Powter, John Porter.
4.45 Geoff Powter announces winner of the Climb/Festival Writing Competition, followed by a reading of the winning entry by Ian Smith.

5.00 TEA

5.30 Stephen Venables: Higher Than The Eagle Soars
5.50 in conversation with John Porter and Mikel Vause.
6.30 End and book signings in the Malt Room