Andy Kirkpatrick

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Andy Kirkpatrick
File:Andy Kirkpatrick in Greenland.jpg
Andy Kirkpatrick in Greenland, 2006
Personal information
NationalityBritish
Born (1971-06-24) 24 June 1971 (age 55)
Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire, England
Occupationsclimber, motivational speaker, writer
Websiteandy-kirkpatrick.com
Climbing career
Type of climber

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 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.[1]

Film, TV and radio

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Kirkpatrick has worked in film and TV as a safety advisor and stunt rigger, including Charlie and the Chocolate Factory,[2] as well as in programmes for CBBC, ITN, BBC and BBC Scotland.[3] The BBC programme "The Big Climb" about his ascent of El Capitan[4] with his 13-year-old daughter Ella won multiple awards.[5] 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.[6] 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.[7]

Writing

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Kirkpatrick's dyslexia is well documented,[8] and these struggles form part of his first book, Psychovertical.[9]

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).[10][11] His first win was with his first book, Psychovertical in 2008[12] and his second with his book, Cold Wars: Climbing the fine line between risk and reality.[13]

Psychovertical has been translated into German (published in 2010 as Psychovertikal by AS Verlag), Polish, Italian and Korean.[citation needed] The Italian version was published in 2011 as Psychovertical by Edizioni Versante Sud and in 2012 won the literary prize Gambrinus "Giuseppe Mazzotti".[14] It is also published in French.[citation needed]

Bibliography

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  • Unknown Pleasures, Vertebrate, 2018, Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
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  • Cold Wars, Vertebrate, 2011, Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
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See also

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References

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  6. ^ BBC Radio 4 – Four Thought, Series 4, Andy Kirkpatrick
  7. ^ X Box To Ice – Sheffield Adventure Film Festival Archived 2 May 2015 at the Wayback Machine
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  11. ^ The Boardman Tasker Prize for Mountain Literature Archived 15 February 2015 at the Wayback Machine
  12. ^ Boardman Tasker winners. Retrieved 8 April 2009 Archived 25 February 2009 at the Wayback Machine
  13. ^ Boardman-Tasker 2012 Winner. Retrieved 16 November 2012
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