Brian Hall Author Talk at Queenstown Events Centre
Joe O'Connell Drive, Frankton, Queenstown
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Brian is a professional mountaineer who has forty years’ experience at the highest level of climbing, with expeditions to Nepal, India and Pakistan including Everest (in winter), K2, Jannu, Nuptse, Makalu, Baltoro Kangri, Shivling and Ogre 2 plus peaks in Patagonia, Bolivia and Peru. He has 35 years’ experience as a Mountain Guide (IFMGA), including running his own mountaineering and ski business for 8 years in Chamonix, France.
Brought up in Kendal in the English Lake District, he gained a Geography degree at Leeds University and a Masters in Ecology at UCNW Bangor.
Brian’s focus in recent years has been his business Film and Mountain. This provided safety, rigging and location advice on film and photography projects. Brian’s credits are very extensive and include organizing the mountain filming on the BAFTA award winning film Touching the Void and its sequel the Emmy award winning Beckoning Silence. Also, Bridget Jones, the Bond Die Another Day, Alien vs Predator, Descent, Shackleton and the Everest feature film, as well as numerous TV documentaries and adverts.
Brian co-directed and produced a number of mountain and extreme sports films including The Bat, Balance of Risk and the 2017 award winning feature documentary Bonington Mountaineer.
Between 1980 and 2008 Brian co-directed the Kendal Mountain Film Festival, the major mountain festival in the UK. Here he started the Extreme Film School enabling adventurers to learn the skills to make their own film about their exploits. Then, as result of developments in film delivery, Brian co-developed SteepEdge.com between 2011 and 2015, a film download website for the adventure sports and mountain community.
His photographs have been published in High, Climber, On the Edge, Climbing, National Geographic, Outside, Observer and Vertical. Other achievements include writing numerous articles in the BBC book The Face - Six Great Climbing Adventures. Brian was invited as a film judge at Kendal, Banff and Gratz Mountain Festivals. In 2019 he attended the Banff Mountain Wilderness Writing Program where he started the book High Risk – Climbing to Extinction. Published in 2022 it has won the prestigious Boardman Tasker Mountain Literature Award and The Himalayan Club Kekoo Naoroji Book Award.
Still a keen climber, he has recently retired and is married to Louise. After becoming New Zealand residents, they divide their life between the New Zealand Southern Alps and the English Peak District.
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