Ex-Cotswold employee Kenton Cool visits 5 of our stores with his lecture 'Mad, Bad and Dangerous to Know - 5 Years of Guiding with Sir Ranulph Fiennes'. This lecture, including a Q&A session, will cover Kenton Cool’s past climbing and guiding achievements focussing specifically on his guiding of Sir Ranulph Fiennes up the North Face of the Eiger and on Everest.

‘People often ask what it is like climbing with Ran, well, in a nutshell, bloody frustrating! In a way he is the perfect client, not concerned with why he needs to do things or how. He never wanted to learn how to climb; he simply wanted me to say that everything we did was building him towards the Eiger. He would drop gear regularly, or simply leave it behind.’ (Kenton Cool on Ranulph Fiennes, UKC website)

Tickets are priced at £8 or £5 for concessions, students and senior citizens;
Tickets are available in-store (see details below) or by calling 0844 557 7755. 

The lecture will take place on the following dates in the locations below;

Wednesday 14 October
Cotswold Outdoor, Blackburn House, 1 Theatre Street, Norwich, Norfolk, NR2 1SA. Tel: 01603 232223. Lecture starts 7.30pm.

Thursday 15 October
Cotswold Outdoor, Ground & First Floor, Crystal House, 135 Fishergate, Preston, Lancashire, PR1 2AH. Tel: 01772 270910. Lecture starts 7.30pm.

Monday 19 October
Cotswold Outdoor, Darts Farm Shopping Village, Darts Farm, Topsham, Exeter, Devon, EX3 0QH. Tel: 01392 878313. Lecture starts 7.30pm.

Tuesday 20 October:
Cotswold Outdoor, 95-97 Mount Pleasant Road, Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent, TN1 1QG. Tel: 01892 539402. Lecture starts 7.30pm.

Wednesday 21 October
Cotswold Outdoor, 13 Lower Northam Road, Hedge End, Southampton, Hampshire, SO30 4FN. Tel: 01489 799555. Lecture starts 7.30pm.

Kenton has been climbing for 18 years and in this time has established himself as one of the UK's leading alpine climbers with an impressive list of difficult ascents.

In May 2006 he became the first and only Briton to climb Everest three times, successfully guiding clients to the summit on each occasion. With Dream Guides successful Cho Oyu expedition in October 2006, Kenton made the first British ski descent of an 8000m peak. And if that's not enough, in 2007, Kenton summited Everest twice. Kenton is the only European to summit 6 times and to summit twice in a season... Most recently, Kenton is known for guiding Sir Ranulph Fiennes.

This lecture promises to be spectacular; no doubt with some amusing stories and some outstanding slides