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EUROPEAN OUTDOOR FILM TOUR 15/16
Tour starts in UK on 31st October The E.O.F.T. is the most renowned film event on the European outdoor calendar. Now in its 15th season, it brings you the most spectacular outdoor and adventure sports films of the year. The tour kicks off with a special premiere evening in Amsterdam on October 9th before heading to more than 300 venues in 14 countries, including 10 dates in the UK with shows in London, Bristol, Glasgow,...
The North Face Night Ray Outdoor Fest
From the dawn of time, we’ve been pushing into the unknown. To learn. To thrive. From exploring remote lands, to a single journey of personal discovery, each is driven by the insatiable spirit of adventure. The North Face Night Ray Outdoor Fest is an opportunity for outdoor lovers to join a number of elite athletes in Gorges du Verdon for an overnight experience like no other. Activities include: DUSK TRAIL RUN Explore The Beautiful Trails...
The Ocean Film Festival World Tour
2nd September – 28th October UK audiences will be able to immerse themselves in the wonders of the ocean without getting their feet wet as the Ocean Film Festival World Tour returns to theatres this autumn after a highly successful first Tour in 2014. The festival, which originates in Australia, will feature a brand new selection of the world’s most captivating ocean-themed short films and will be shown in 25 towns and cities across the...
A Wild Weekend
Written by Anna Milne The plan was to meet in a pub at night and be led out to a secret location in the woods. There was a palpable sense of foreboding as we left the pub and followed a jeep in convoy to the secret spot. Suddenly disarmed by the dark, I sliced my finger trying to cut my new head torch out of its vacuum pack with a mini pocket knife. Not a...
The North Face® Night Ray Outdoor Fest
On September 12, 2015, The North Face® brings a new way to experience the great outdoors with a one-night, all-night festival of exploration. The first The North Face® Night Ray Outdoor Fest, presented by Jeep®, will be held in Gorges du Verdon, France. It is an opportunity for outdoor enthusiasts with insatiable curiosity to go on an overnight adventure with The North Face® athletes. Guests get to experience the lesser-known side of the canyon, and...
Adventure Awards Days
This summer, the Italian alpine village of Livigno hosts the third edition of Adventure Awards Days, the international festival dedicated to adventure and exploration. Every year adventurers of every description, whether they be mountaineers, explorers or independent travellers, congregate at the Adventure Awards Days festival to share their stories, their experiences and their passion. Adventure Awards Days is not an extreme sports event. Instead, it’s an event that inspires those attending to live life to...
The Magic Kingdom
by Charley Radcliffe It is hard to imagine that less than a month ago, I was up in the foothills of the Annapurna Region, trekking that world famous Circuit in preparation for a single push of the 220km trek. On April 25th, a devastating earthquake tore through the country leaving over 7,000 reported dead, countless more still missing, and an incomprehensible level of destruction to buildings and infrastructure. I’d set out on my adventure in...
An Audience With Adventure
Secret Compass hosts an Audience with Adventure, part of the Kendal Mountain Festival 2015 Film Tour. This May 21 in London, expedition company Secret Compass hosts its inaugural Audience with Adventure, part of the Kendal Mountain Film Tour, in aid of Joshua Orphan and Community Care, Malawi. The evening features a selection of award-winning films selected from Kendal’s 2014 highlights plus an onstage Q&A with some of the industry’s finest, compered by filmmaker, writer and...
Attempt at new British swimming record
A new British swimming record could be set in May, when five amateur swimmers attempt to become the first non-American relay team to swim one of the world’s most dangerous cold-water marathons. The Great British Farallon Swim team will attempt the perilous 30-mile passage from Farallon Island to the Golden Gate Bridge, off the coast of San Francisco, California. Sea conditions there are described as being ‘like the English Channel, but much colder, rougher, and...
The Adventure Fund 2015 Winner
We’ve had some amazing expeditions proposed to us for this year’s The Adventure Fund – with a huge amount of applications covering many different disciplines for expeditions across the entire world. Needless to say, the judging process was a long and difficult path but we’re now really pleased to announce the result. The 2015 winning adventurer is Alienor le Gouvello who is planning a solo horse trek along the Bicentennial National Trail, a 5330km route...
Banff Mountain Film Festival comes to the UK
Get ready for a face full of snow, sweat, and high altitude endurance at the 2015 Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour – heading to the UK early next year. The Banff Tour has a reputation that’s fast becoming legendary. It brings together the outdoors and adventure community for a night of inspiration and reignites peoples’ passion to get outside – whatever their sport, whatever their level. “More than stunning climbing, skiing, biking, and paddling...
Kendal Mountain Festival secures ‘Jeff Lowe’s Metanoia’
Kendal Mountain Festival has secured the second-ever public screening of ‘Jeff Lowe’s Metanoia’. Only completed in the last two weeks and premiered at the Banff Mountain Festival on 2 November, this is a major film that has been in production for several years. Not only will the film be screened, but Jeff Lowe himself will travel across from the USA to be in Kendal, despite the terminal illness he is suffering from. “We’ve been in...
The North Face Summit Tour
This November, The North Face® Summit Tour arrives in Newcastle and London and will showcase some incredible and ambitious adventure films. There will also be exclusive talks from accomplished climbing and adventure athletes James Pearson and Caroline Ciavaldini who will give an insight into the past and present travels and climbing endeavours. The event promises a captivating night of adventure and exploration. The Summit Tour film line up includes: Always Above Us In 2013, one...
KMF to launch online festival TV show
The world’s premier mountain festival, celebrating all aspects of outdoor culture including film, literature and art, will be sharing this year’s news & highlights online for the very first time. Kendal Mountain Festival in partnership with Blacks Outdoor has teamed up with Sidetracked Magazine – one of the UK’s leading adventure publications – to produce daily video reports, interviews and profiles during the event itself. All hosted on the publication’s new platform: Sidetracked TV. Speaking...
The Steppe of Misfortune
Sidetracked Joint Editor, Jamie Bunchuk recently returned from Central Kazakhstan after a short but tough journey across the the Betpak Dala – ‘The Steppe of Misfortune’. Here’s how his trip went. In the Autumn of 2014 I made a crossing of an uninhabited area of Kazakhstan almost as large of Scotland, whilst running over seven back-to-back marathons through it at the same time. The journey was the first ever East to West crossing of the...
Adventure Events
Adrian Hayes: K2 – The Tragedy and the Triumph September 9th | Royal Geographical Society British record-breaking polar explorer and adventurer Adrian Hayes recounts 60 years of the Savage Mountain; the tragic events of his unsuccessful 2013 attempt; and his successful return to summit the world’s second highest mountain in July this year. Visit worldexpeditions.com for information and tickets Royal Geographical Society : Everest’s Deadliest Day: A Panel Discussion October 9th | Royal Geographical Society...
Adventure News – A Week In Review
Mike Horn is at it again. The 48 year old will embark on a motorless circumnavigation of the earth via the two poles this September. The first leg will see him sail from Monaco to South Africa before heading to Antarctica where he will ski 3,600 miles across the continent, and get collected on the other side by his boat, the Pangaea. He will repeat this process by sailing to Alaska’s Bering Strait, then sail,...
Adventure News – A Week In Review
Congratulations are in order to the first Nepali women ever to climb K2. The 2014 seven summit international K2 EXPD team successfully summited Mount K2 with 19 climbers. Also to Claire Oziem who has became the first woman to run from John O’Groat’s to Lands End unsupported, pushing her trolley/buggy over 1000 miles. A quick update from an expedition currently in progress is that of runner Kevin Carr who set off from England in July...
The International Ocean Film Festival
UK audiences will be able to immerse themselves in the wonders of the ocean without getting their feet wet as the International Ocean Film Festival comes to theatres for the first time this Autumn. The festival, which originates in Australia, will feature a selection of the world’s most captivating ocean-themed short films and will be shown in 17 towns and cities across the UK. The International Ocean Film Festival showcases more than two hours of...
Adventure News – A Week In Review
Tragic news has reached us from the field. 17-year-old adventurer Haris Suleman has died while attempting to circumnavigate the world in a single-engine plane in just 30 days. Haris was coming to the end of his expedition when his plane went down in the Pacific Ocean. His body was recovered from the waters, but that of his father, 58-year-old Babar Suleman has yet to be found. Haris was in pursuit of the record for the...
Adventure News – A Week In Review
The explorers out there have been busy breaking records these past few weeks. Fabien Cousteau has beaten his grandfather, oceanographer Jacques Cousteau’s record for the amount of time someone has spent submerged under water. He has beaten this record by a single day. The team of three spent 31 consecutive days in the Aquarius undersea station. Mission 31’s aim was to explore marine life, collect data and promote conservation efforts, whilst also honouring the 50th...
Adventure News – A Week In Review
After over 690 days Filipe Masetti Leite is reaching the end of his incredible journey. The youth has ridden a horse from Calgary, Canada back home to Brazil, covering a distance of approximately 8700 miles. Although he has reached the Brazilian border, he still has over 1200 miles to go to get to his home town in São Paulo. He is momentarily at a standstill whilst his three horses pass through quarantine. Tom Allen has...
Adventure News – A Week In Review
Ultrarunner Kilian Jornet has smashed yet another record. This time on Alaska’s 20,237-foot Mount McKinley in 11 hours and 40 minutes, beating the current record by an incredible five hours. It is all a part of Jornet’s bigger plan dubbed ‘Summits of my Life‘. For the next few challenges, Jornet has his eyes s on Mt. Elbrus, Aconcagua, and Everest. Meanwhile, the Greenland Ice Expedition has ended in success. The team of Dixie Dansercoer and...
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