2010 Speakers and Workshops

Guest Speakers

Will Gadd

Adrian Laing

Kylie Wakelin

Martin Jones

Workshop Speakers

Rosie Cox - Yoga Workshop

Peter Bilous - Avalanche Awareness Workshop

Corrie Francis - Digital Film workshop

Paul Hersey -A Reading Workshop.

Ski / Board Tuning Workshop

 

Guest Speakers

Will Gadd - Canada

Canada Exposed: Ice, rock, rivers, clouds, grizzly bears and some other stuff from the last 30 years of non-stop Canadian adventures by Will Gadd and friends. Pictures, videos, comics, profanity and attempted profundity, high and low humor, generally good entertainment for an hour of your time from.

A Canmore, Alberta, resident who's won every major ice-climbing competition and at one stage held the distance world record in paragliding. Will has had several films featured in the NZMFF finalists including Aweberg where he had the thrill of his life climbing icebergs. He and Ben Firth, 29, went on a hunt for grounded bergs in Newfoundland but ended up climbing floating chunks in the Labrador Sea. With the ancient ice's unpredictable rolling and cleaving, the two quickly learned the dangers of getting too close to the buoyant masses.

 

 

 

Adrian Laing - Australia

After receiving a late call up for the 2009 NZ Sparc Hillary Expedition to the Karakoram, Pakistan, Australian Adrian Laing jumped at the chance to join his Wanaka mates Bruce Dowrick, Jon Sedon and Scott Standen for some high altitude rock climbing. Their audacious goal was an all free first ascent up a remote 1000m high granite pillar. In this video and photo presentation Adrian takes us into a spectacular region of the Karakoram to experience their highs and lows of the trip, and their ultimate success in establishing a ground-up all free ascent with difficulties up to grade 25 at altitudes above 5000m. Lovers of suffering will enjoy this one!
Residing in the Blue Mountains of Australia where he works as a firefighter, Adrian has established difficult new routes all over Australia as well as repeating the classics Serpentine(29), Tasmania’s Totem Pole (25) and a rare free repeat of Mt Buffalo’s Ozymandias Original (280m,28).

 

 

 

 

Kylie Wakelin - NZ

Twizel woman Kylie Wakelin and six other members of the Commonwealth Antarctic expedition arrived at the South Pole after 900km and 38 days of trekking through some of the most challenging terrain on earth, making Kylie the first New Zealand woman to ski to the South Pole.

Fresh from Antarctica and armed with some stunning expedition photography Kylie Wakelin of the Kaspersky Lab Commonwealth Antarctic Expedition team is ready to share her stories and experiences with us. Hear the drama, excitement, tension and suspense of the team's adventure first hand.

Months before reaching the ice of Antarctica, the Commonwealth Women’s team already faced an enormous challenge. If the team could not secure adequate funding then their ambition of reaching the South Pole would remain a dream. Hundreds of hours of training and planning were at risk if the eight team members failed to raise the money and support they needed.

With the help of Kaspersky Lab, a leading developer of secure content management systems, the eight women from Commonwealth countries had the money and the support to ensure that their amazing quest went ahead.

Martin Jones - NZ

Martin's presentation will be audio visual (photo – film - talk) about setting up a ski business in India with the assistance of the charity NZ SKI CLUB – to help the local Kashmir people learn how to cater for foreign and domestic ski tourists, acquire the equipment, develop their skills, and establish the infra-structure for on-going sustainable ski tourism at Gulmarg Village in the Kashmir Himalaya, India.

 

 

 

Workshops

Paul Hersey -A Reading Workshop: What Makes Good Climbing Literature? - a biased view

Christchurch-based adventure writer, climber and surfer Paul Hersey will attempt to answer this question, referring to and reading extracts by both popular and not so well-known climbing authors, including Jon Krakauer, Greg Child, Robert Macfarlane, Jonathan Waterman and David Craig.


Paul has written two climbing books - 'High Misadventure' and 'Where The Mountains Throw Their Dice' - and has another - 'Searching For Groundswell' - due for release later this year. Paul also contributes to North and South, Wilderness and NZ Climber.

 

Rosie Cox - Yoga Workshop

Last year's free yoga session was enjoyed and attended by a large group. So we've put on another. Come along this year to limber up after a tense session of on the edge of ya seat films.

 

Peter Bilous - Avalanche Safety Workshop

We will again put on a FREE lecture on Avalanche Safety for back country skiers and boarders. The back country skiing around Wanaka is amazing, but you'll need a few tips to keep you safe. This workshop focuses on tips to improve your safety and will give you a head start into the art of avalanche forecasting.


The lecture is run by local Peter Bilous who keeps himself busy managing the Otago Polytechnic Avalanche Programme professional courses and ski guiding with Harris Mountains Heliski. He also guides overseas, primarily in Canada and the USA, when you can pry him away from the surf.....

 

Corrie Francis - Digital Film workshop

Ever wonder how to make your film more artsy and cutting edge? Animation is your answer. Corrie Francis, director of the award-winning animated documentary Conversing with Aotearoa/New Zealand will demonstrate various animation techniques and how to record them with nothing more that a digital camera and a basic editing program.

 

Ski / Board Tuning Workshop

Chris Rodgers from Base (www.basenz.com/) ski and snowboard shops will bring you a workshop on how to tune up your own skis and snowboards. Edge sharpening, p-texing, waxing and general self care of your boards.




 
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