Kendal Mountain Events

Today was an exciting day as we launched the 2024 Kendal Mountain Festival! Our annual festival celebrates adventure, culture, nature and exploration.  It will be taking place from the 21st - 24th November, and this year will be themed around ‘balance’. With the launch, comes the first wave of tickets, and a stellar lineup:  - The first female runner to complete one of the world’s toughest races, the Barkley Marathons, Jasmin Paris. - A special Climb Session dedicated to Yosemite climbing centred around Billy Ridal and Alex Waterhouse's phenomenal free ascent of The Nose on El Capitan, with further big guests to be announced.  - BBC’s presenter of The Sky at Night, Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock, who will be on stage demystifying the world’s most powerful space telescope. - The men behind Three Dads Walking - Mike Palmer, Andy Airey and Tim Owen, all recently appointed MBEs - will be on stage to talk about their incredible journey to walk 300 miles in memory of their young daughters, Sophie, Beth and Emily. Plus, get up close and personal with former UK Special Forces Soldier and the star of Channel 4’s SAS: Who Dares Wins, Jason Fox, talking about his life story and his latest book, Embrace The Chaos. The first wave of tickets also includes appearances by climbers Leo Houlding and Waldo Etherington with their latest film, Asgard Raw, and mountain runner Hillary Gerardi presenting her film, Always Alive. Whilst the full film programme will be live in October, tickets will go on sale for a small selection of feature films throughout July - September, including Climbing Mount Everest 1922. This will be a groundbreaking World Premiere of John Noel’s classic film accompanied by a newly commissioned film score, performed live in the venue by the composers Lee Affen and Ferenc Gyemant. We anticipate this year’s Festival programme to be our largest ever, with a second ticket wave going live in August, and a third wave in September. Tickets for feature films and film collections will go live in October after selection and judging has been finalised for the International Film Competition. #sharetheadventure https://lnkd.in/eJFpzEd9

Well what a gathering that was! I can truly say that this year's Kendal Mountain Festival run by our team here at Kendal Mountain Events was epic on all levels. The team are pretty exhausted as is to be expected after the energy required to run the show – but the positive feedback, letters of thanks and congratulations and this wee article in the GUARDIAN about 'Kendal' being a beacon for representation and change – makes us all very happy and energises us for the year ahead! I think we're getting plenty of things right these days, however in true 'Kaizen' style – we'll keep on striving for improvement. A huge thank you to the whole Festival collective - staff, brand Partners, organisations, guest speakers and ambassadors, supporters, volunteers and ticket buying, beer drinking, food munching lovely visitors who all contribute to make the event very special. The buzz around the town and venues was simply electric this year! We look forward to seeing you next November (21 – 24.11. 2024) or on one of our UK or Overseas Tours starting February 2024.