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Friday 17th February

“Where the Land Meets the Sea”

‘Vertical Sailing’ with Bob Shepton and ‘The Long Hope’, a film by Paul Diffley featuring Dave MacLeod, Andy Turner and Ed Drummond, plus Oliver Hill, John Arran and Dave Turnbull

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Bob Shepton - First Pitch - Seagulls GardenVertical Sailing with Bob Shepton

We kick-start the Friday evening in the company of Bob Shepton following his breathtaking sailing and big wall climbing  expedition in Greenland. Climbers Nico Favresse, Olivier Favresse, Seán Villanueva and Ben Ditto headed out with Bob Shepton on his 33-foot sailboat in pursuit of unclimbed big walls on the West Coast of Greenland. The ascents and style of climbs during the expedition, which included an 850 metres high ”Impossible Wall” straight from the sea, won a Piolet d’Or in 2011. Video: Seán Villanueva

Bob Shepton is a highly experienced Arctic explorer who has led several Sailing and Climbing Expeditions to Greenland and Arctic Canada in his yacht, The Westerly 33 ‘Dodo’s Delight’.

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The Long Hope: A Film By Paul Diffley with Dave MacLeod, Andy Turner and Ed Drummond, plus Oliver Hill, John Arran and Dave TurnbullThe Long Hope: Lukasz Warzecha

St John’s Head on the island of Hoy is a wild and remote 1000-foot sea cliff. It was first climbed in 1970 by climber and poet Edwin Drummond. Drummond, together with Oliver Hill, took 7 days to climb the cliff, sleeping on ledges and in hammocks on the way.

Now, 40 years later, Scotland’s top climber, Dave MacLeod, is setting out to climb the cliff in a single day, finishing with a new desperately hard final pitch up the headwall. This new route will rate as the hardest climb of its type in the country.

MacLeod’s historic new climb will be captured close-up with the latest HD cameras and contrasted with the challenge of Drummond’s first ascent though interviews and archive material. The film will also follow Ed Drummond, now in his sixties and suffering from Parkinson’s disease, as he makes a pilgrimage back to St John’s Head to look upon the route one last time.

‘The Long Hope’, 2011, HD 60 mins

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Marine Harvestproudly supporting “Where the Land Meets the Sea” at the Fort William Mountain Festival