Barry Blanchard is a Canadian mountaineer/ice climbing specialist. He has climbed loads of stuff in Canada, the Himalayas and the Karakoram. He works as a mountain guide and acted as a technical advisor on those great cinematic climbing masterpieces K2, Cliffhanger and Vertical Limit. If you don’t hold the latter against him, and even if you do, you may be interested in coming to hear him speak at Vic Uni at 7pm on Tues 25 Sep.
Tickets cost $15. You can book online, see the link below. I’m pretty sure there will be ticket sales on the night as well. Barry is supposed to be an entertaining speaker.
https://alpineclub.org.nz/product/barry-blanchard-speaker-tour-wellington