Andy Kirkpatrick

Andy is a climber with a strange penchant for the long, the cold and the difficult, and a reputation for seeking out routes where the danger is real, and the return is questionable. Although personally, he prefers Metro's tag that he “...makes Ray Mears look like Paris Hilton”.

A specialist in winter expeditions, he has pushed himself on some of the hardest walls and faces in the Alps and beyond, sometimes with partners and sometimes alone.

Whether he’s telling a story about a 12 day solo of the hardest climb on the planet, a month-long crossing of Greenland with his paraplegic girlfriend, or saving Johnny Depp on Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, rest assured you won’t have heard anything quite like it.