We are honoured to announce that Stephen Venables has
become the first patron of Dreamcatcher Children's Charitable
Fund....
ABOUT STEPHEN
VENABLES
Stephen Venables, mountaineer, writer,
broadcaster and public speaker, was
the first Briton to climb Everest without
supplementary oxygen. He reached the
summit alone, after climbing with a small
American-Canadian team, by a new route
up the gigantic Kangshung Face.
Everest was a thrilling highlight in a career
which has taken Stephen right
through the Himalaya, from Afghanistan to Tibet,
making first ascents of many
previously unknown mountains. His adventures have
also taken him to the Rockies,
the Andes, the Antarctic island South Georgia,
East Africa, South Africa and of
course the European Alps, where he has climbed
and skied for over forty
years.
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The stories of these travels have enthralled
Stephen’s lecture audiences in
theatres, schools and university clubs and at
corporate conferences all over the
world. He has also appeared in television
documentaries for BBC, ITV and
National Geographic, presented for Radio 4 and
appeared in the IMAX movie
Shackleton’s Antarctic Adventure.
http://www.stephenvenables.com/about.asp
Stephen, his wife Rosie and son Edmond are no
strangers to the adversity that families and their children
sometimes have to experience and endure. Through great courage,
care, tenacity and most of all love they did the best they could
for their first son Ollie, a special child, who was diagnosed
as autistic at two, found to have leukaemia a couple of years
later, and who, after years of remission, was
then found to have a fatal brain tumour, and who
died aged 12 in October 2003.
Stephen's Sunday Time bestseller book
Ollie deals candidly with the effects of autism, illness
and exhaustion on Ollie and his family, but it is also an
inspiring, uplifting story
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