Because It’s There Mountain Festival

Because It’s There Mountain Festival is being called the first event of its kind coming to London on June 15, 2010.

Intelligence Squared, Britain’s premier debating forum, is organizing the mountain event.  The festival will feature  “film, seat-gripping tales of derring-do from the world’s best (and best-known) climbers and mountaineers and an animated discussion entitled ‘Everest has killed the true spirit of adventure’.”

Speakers will include:

• Doug Scott CBE

• George Band OBE

• Kenton Cool

• Stephen Venables

• Rebecca Stephens MBE

• Peter Baily

Image courtesy of Intelligence Squared.