Richard to speak at Kendal Mountain Festival

17th November 2011

An exciting weekend approaches in the mountaineering calendar.

Each year the Cumbrian town of Kendal welcomes thousands of outdoors enthusiasts from around the world to celebrate mountain culture in film, lectures, art and literature.

This year Richard Parks has been invited to be a speaker at the prestigious Kendal Mountain Festival, whilst a film on his 737 Challenge will also be shown throughout the weekend.

Richard is thrilled to be invited and is looking forward to telling his story; “I am really excited to be given the opportunity to submit the 737 Challenge film and really proud to have been asked to speak on Saturday” he stated.  “It is a real honour to be amongst many people that I admire within the mountaineering community and to speak amongst so many inspirational men and women”.

Richard will speak about his record setting 737 Challenge this Saturday, 19 November at 4pm.


Click below to see Kendal’s line up of incredible speakers.

The Kendal Mountain Festival is a hugely popular event, which runs from Today until Sunday, you can see a programme of events and ticket details by also clicking below.

Richard added; “It will also be fantastic to represent my sponsors, Rab and Jagged Globe and catch up with all the guys at what is just an awesome event and I would like to say a massive thank you to everyone at Kendal for supporting my 737 Challenge”.