Leo Houlding will be taking his new show to 17 theatres across the UK, from Friday 28 October to Tuesday 6 December.
In this new show, Leo discusses the contrast between adventure TV and adventure film and reflects on the conflict between a life of extreme adventure and the responsibilities and homely joys of fatherhood, juxtaposed against the undying drive for the next great quest through the narrative of his aptly named Mirror Wall expedition.
Leo Houlding is renowned for audacious ascents of epic faces, documented in award-winning movies including The Asgard Project, The Wildest Dream and The Last Great Climb. Twenty years of extreme adventures have taken him from BBC 2’s Top Gear to the top of Everest, from devastating injury to major world firsts and from terrifying BASE jumps to glorious summits of the most remote and difficult peaks on every continent. In 2014 Leo fronted a major Discovery TV adventure series, Lost Worlds. The following summer he led a successful expedition to a magnificent and massive cliff in Arctic Greenland known as the Mirror Wall, his first major expedition since becoming a father and the loss of his great friend and partner Sean ‘Stanley’ Leary.
Dates and Venues
Friday 28 October – The Carriageworks. LEEDS
Sunday 6 November – Pavilion Arts Centre, BUXTON
Monday 7 November – ChrysalisMK, MILTON KEYNES
Tuesday 8 November – Sage Gateshead, GATESHEAD
Thursday 10 November – Carnegie Theatre, WORKINGTON
Sunday 13 November – Birnam Arts Institute, DUNKELD
Monday 14 November – The Lemon Tree, ABERDEEN
Tuesday 15 November – Eden Court, INVERNESS
Thursday 17 November – Drygate, GLASGOW
Tuesday 22 November – Malvern Theatres, MALVERN
Wednesday 23 November – The Lights, ANDOVER
Sunday 27 November – Palace Theatre, SOUTHEND
Monday 28 November – Corn Exchange, EXETER
Tuesday 29 November – Theatr Brycheiniog, BRECON
Wednesday 30 November – Oakengates@The Place, TELFORD
Friday 2 December – Galeri Theatr, CAERNARFON
Tuesday 6 December – Dukes Theatre, LANCASTER
Presented by Speakers from the Edge in association with Berghaus and Cotswold Outdoor