With one of our motivational after dinner speakers your guests can enjoy an uplifting and inspirational presentation after your event with Striding Ahead LLP. 

 

Baz Roberts:
Baz is an entrepreneur and professional extreme sportsman. Being a calculated risk taker, he survived a near drowning while rafting, (inadvertently) skiing off a cliff in New Zealand and a polar bear attack. Three weeks before departing for Everest in ‘04 he fractured two bones in his back. An ordinary man who’s followed his heart to seek out adventure, Baz connects with his audiences through his candour, honest appraisal of his strengths and failings as a leader and his insight into the dynamics of the teams and leaders he has travelled and worked with under extreme and occasionally dangerous circumstances. Baz’s corporate presentations are illustrated with first class images and video clips of his world-wide adventures from the depths of the Arctic winter to the summit of Everest.

 

Stephen Venables:
Stephen Venables (born 1954) is one of the most renowned mountain climbers in the world today. In 1988 he became the first Briton to ascend to the summit of Mount Everest without bottled oxygen. His ascent, as far as the South Col, was by a new route up the Kangshung Face from Tibet, with just three other climbers, Americans Robert Anderson and Ed Webster, and Canadian Paul Teare. All four reached the South Col but Teare decided to descend from here, concerned about incipient altitude sickness. The other three continued up the final section of the normal 1953 route, but Anderson and Webster were forced to turn back at the South Summit. Meanwhile, Venables reached the summit alone, at 3.40 pm. Descending late in the day, he decided to bivouac in the open at about 8,600 metres, rather than risk a fall by continuing in the dark!