Sorry about the lack of posts this week – a) it’s been a whirlwind of a time and b) my phone has stopped uploading the posts!… anyway, back to last Friday!…. As part of my work with the Rab AMI test team, I’ve been up in The Lake District at the Kendal Mountain Film Festival. It’s been a crazy 24 hours or so, but well worth the effort. The trip started off with a lucky lift share. I’d agreed to give a friend a lift, which in turn led to a free bed to sleep on and a good breakfast before the festivities began the next day.
I was due to be running some technical workshops to promote the Association of Mountaineering Instructors on a small training wall at the Rab Equipment stand. These were good fun and it was good to be using my brain to answer lots of on the spot questions about everything from tying knots to complex rescue situations.
As we were packing up for the evening, I was rather luckily given a ticket to a sold out presentation with the worlds hardest rock climber – Adam Ondra. During his talk he showed a film clip that showed him ‘resting his arms’ on a hard overhanging climb – by hanging from his toes!!
And if that wasn’t good enough, I also got to meet him afterwards and have a quick chat! Amazing!
From then on it just kept getting better as I subsequently got introduced to American climbing hero – Tommy Caldwell.

It was a late exit from the party, but what a giggle it had been. We’d only been in Kendal just over 24 hours yet packed in so much! Worked, played, met old friends, made new ones, been to a lecture, hung out with the A-list of the climbing world and won the quiz! It was time to cut and run! Arrived back at The Cottage at 2am elated and utterly shattered.
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