Andrew Kirkpatrick is a British mountaineer, author, motivational speaker and monologist. He is best known as a big wall climber, having scaled Yosemite's El Capitan over 30 times, including five solo climbing ascents, and two one-day ascents, as well as climbing in Patagonia, Alaska, Antarctica and the Alps. He has also crossed Greenland by ski. In 2014 he guided Alex Jones up Moonlight Buttress, Zion National Park, raising £1.9 million for Sport Relief.
Film, TV and radio
Kirkpatrick has worked in film and TV as a safety advisor and stunt rigger, including
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory,
as well as in programmes for CBBC, ITN, BBC and BBC Scotland.
The
BBC programme "The Big Climb" about his ascent of
El Capitan with his 13-year-old daughter Ella won multiple awards.
In 2014, he guided the TV presenter Alex Jones up the Moonlight Buttress in Zion National Park to raise money for
Sports Relief, raising £1.9 million. In 2014, Kirkpatrick gave a fifteen-minute talk on BBC Radio 4 in its Four Thought slot on the subject of the importance of risky play for children.
[ BBC Radio 4 – Four Thought, Series 4, Andy Kirkpatrick] In January 2015, he followed the route of the heroes of telemark on the
Hardangervidda by ski with his two children for a
BBC film on risky play.
[ X Box To Ice – Sheffield Adventure Film Festival ]
Writing
Kirkpatrick's dyslexia is well documented,
and these struggles form part of his first book,
Psychovertical.
Kirkpatrick is only the third person to win the Boardman Tasker Prize for Mountain Literature twice (Paul Pritchard and Jim Perrin being the other authors to win twice).[ The Boardman Tasker Prize for Mountain Literature ] His first win was with his first book, Psychovertical in 2008[ Boardman Tasker winners. Retrieved 8 April 2009 ] and his second with his book, Cold Wars: Climbing the fine line between risk and reality.[ Boardman-Tasker 2012 Winner. Retrieved 16 November 2012]
Psychovertical has been translated into German (published in 2010 as Psychovertikal by AS Verlag), Polish, Italian and Korean. The Italian version was published in 2011 as Psychovertical by Edizioni Versante Sud and in 2012 won the literary prize Gambrinus "Giuseppe Mazzotti".
Bibliography
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Down, Akreative, 2020,
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Psychovertical, London: Hutchinson, 2008, ,
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Unknown Pleasures, Vertebrate, 2018,
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Higher Education, Akreative, 2018,
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30 Years of Climbing Magazine, Climbing Magazine, 1999,
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Cold Wars, Vertebrate, 2011,
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Zimne Wojny by Taschenbuch
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Kalte Kriege, AS Verlag, 2012,
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Cold Wars, The Mountaineers, USA,
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1000+ Climbing Tips Akreative
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Nutcraft Akreative ASIN: B00F8CVQ0S
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Hooks Akreative ASIN: B008LZRO0A
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Driven Akreative
See also
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