This invitation has come in from Christian Cullinane to an Adventure fundraising lecture being held at the Thames Rowing Club, Putney, at 7pm on February 16th.  It sounds like a great line up of speakers and a very worthy cause. 

 

“My brothers and several of  friends  are taking on the National Three Peaks Challenge (and cycling 500 miles in between!) in loving memory of my nephew Joshua who died aged four months on the 29th of March 2011 at Demelza Childrens Hospice (details of the challenge at www.4Joshua.org). 

 

This event is a key fundraiser in support of our efforts. Really hope you can come along. It will be a great night! Many thanks.”

 

The evening runs from 7 – 11.30pm and tickets are only £15 including a free drink on arrival with food throughout the evening, Bar, DJ and a raffle for some fantastic prizes, which include a Red Arrows pilots flying suit signed by the team!

 

The speakers for the evening are;

 

Dave Cornthwaite is a British adventurer, author and motivational speaker. (http://www.davecornthwaite.com)

 

Dave’s adventures are largely shaped by a passion for combining sport and travel to encourage people to look after their own little corner of the planet by thinking big, staying healthy and smiling as much as possible.

 

Dave is probably best known for his Expedition1000 project, an ambitious series of twenty five journeys of at least 1000 miles in length, each one using a different method of non-motorised transport. Dave hopes to raise £1,000,000 for his selected charities by the end of the project, which will take him across three oceans, to both poles, and to every continent on Earth.

 

Belinda Kirk is an expedition manager, film maker and adventurer. (http://www.BelindaKirk.com)

 

Belinda has 16 years experience organising expeditions to all corners of the world. She assists established explorers and total beginners to accomplish their next challenge and encourages everyone to live more adventurously through her community group Explorers Connect.

 

Last year Belinda skippered a 52 day unsupported circum-navigation of Britain in a rowing boat. The voyage set a Guinness World Record and was described by Richard Branson as “quite the most remarkable achievement carried out by any women alive today.”

 

Mark Hines is an ultra-endurance runner and a lecturer on exercise physiology. (http://www.MarkHines.org)

 

He began competing in ultra-endurance races in 2007 starting with the 150-mile Marathon de Sables in the Moroccan Sahara followed by the 130-mile jungle marathon in Brazil. He’s also raced over mountains, in the Yukon subarctic and is currently planning an unsupported speed record attempt to the geographic North Pole. He’s told us he’ll be ‘looking a little haggered’ when he gives his talk it being at the end of an absolute beasting of a training period in preparation for his speed attempt.

 

Bonita Norris is an Arctic explorer, ultra endurance athlete & exercise physiologist

 

Bonita has already broken two mountaineering records within only two years of starting high-altitude mountaineering and is now a member Karrimor’s elite athlete team. 

 

Bonita’s first experience of high-altitude mountaineering was in September 2009, when she became the youngest woman in history to reach the false summit of Mount Manaslu in the Himalaya (eighth highest mountain in the world).  In May 2010, Bonita achieved her dream and became the youngest British woman to stand on the summit of Mount Everest at the age of 22.

 

Sounds like a great evening so get your tickets early!