As part of the Buxton Adventure Festival, Heather Geluk and Kenton Cool will be presenting an animated talk at Buxton Pavilion Arts Theatre this Saturday 7th November starting at 7.30 pm. (tickets via Opera House Box Office).

The promoters have kindly agreed to Buxton MRT making a bucket collection at the event.

Kenton Cool is one of the world’s leading high-altitude climbers. He has successfully climbed Mount Everest eleven times. He will be talking about his latest expedition to Nanda Devi East, and also about his latest book One Man’s Everest.

On 25 April, 2015 an earthquake with a magnitude of 7.9 struck the small country of Nepal. The devastating quake killed nearly 9,000 people, injured over 25,000 and left hundreds of thousands of people destitute. The worlds response to the crisis was immediate, and millions of dollars in aid poured into the country to help ease the pain and loss of those most in need.

Sherpa Adventure Gear Athlete, Heather Geluk was on a climbing expedition in Nepal at 6,000m on Mount Shishapangma when the earthquake struck. Fortunate to have survived the earthquake and subsequent avalanches, she abandoned her climb and stayed in-country to provide humanitarian assistance both in Kathmandu, the Khumbu and some of the hard-hit remote areas of the country. Throughout her topsy-turvy journey and between hundreds of aftershocks,  she was involved in the the distribution of aid – temporary shelters, food and financial relief through the Sherpa Adventure Gear Paldorje Education Foundation.

In October Heather returned to Nepal to begin the rebuilding of a school for 450 students in a village just outside of Kathmandu. In her presentation Heather will share her experiences and insights as an expedition which started out as a climb up the 14th highest mountain in the world turned into an experience that would forever change her life.

Text information from Adventure Festival Web-site.  Photos from personal blogs.