The two-day festival takes place in November. Photo: Lucasz Warzecha
Scottish outdoor luminary Chris Townsend is among the line-up for an adventure festival, which also includes talks from ultrarunner Jez Bragg, who ran and paddled the length of New Zealand.
The Buxton Adventure Festival is being run for the second year in the Derbyshire town.
Organisers said 100 per cent of last year’s audience said they liked the event.
This year’s line-up includes 10 ‘record-breaking, globe-trotting, mountain-topping inspirational speakers from the worlds of adventure, travel and sport,’ organisers said.
Matt Heason’s Heason Events has teamed up with University of Derby, Buxton, to put on the festival.
Lissa Cook of Buxton Adventure Festival said:
Ultrarunner Jez Bragg will speak at the event
“Between them, our intrepid line-up has pedalled, paddled, climbed, hiked, run, skied and even dog-sledding all over the world.
“I’m particularly pleased that we’ve got four strong, female speakers. Matt and I are also committed to keep expanding our family-friendly offer for to inspire the next generation of adventurers.
“We hope the speakers and films at the Buxton Adventure Festival will inspire people to enjoy the outdoors, no matter what their age or ability, and encourage them to set themselves challenges, no matter how big or small.”
The line-up includes trials bike champion Danny Butler; outdoor writer and photographer Chris Townsend, Juliana Buhring who set the first ever Guinness world record for fastest woman to circumnavigate the world by bicycle; Team GB mountain biker Annie Last; ultrarunner, climber and cyclist Heather Dawe; ultrarunner Jez Bragg, who completed the Te Araroa Trail in 53 days and Global Adventurer Rosie Swale-Pope is the only person in world history to have undertaken an epic solo, unsupported run around our world.
The speakers’ programme will be augmented with a yet-to-be announced set of adventure films at the festival, which will take place on 2 and 3 November.
More details, including prices, are on the festival website.
