Jim Curran
is a freelance cameraman, writer, lecturer, climber, and
artist.
He has climbed and filmed on fifteen mountain-based
documentaries (including two on Mount Everest), with all the
great of the British mountaineering scene, including Chris
Bonnington, Joe Tasker, Alan Rouse, Joe Brown and Peter
Boardman. He has also filmed in the Andes, Caucasus and Atlas
Mountains and China, and nearer home, on the Old Man of Hoy
and St Kilda.
He lives in Sheffield where his painting is constantly
interrupted by the attractions of the Peak District in
general, and the attractions of climbing on gritstone outcrops
in particular.
His films and books have won many awards world-wide, and he
has been short-listed four times for the Boardman Tasker Award
for Mountain Literature.
His films include
Kongur,
K2 - Triumph and
Tragedy,
Barnaj,
and
Trango,
all produced by CHRIS LISTER of Northern Films in Leeds.
Book credits include
Trango, The Nameless
Tower,
K2 - Triumph and
Tragedy,
Suspended
Sentences,
and K2 -
The Story of the Savage Mountain,
which won the non-fiction award at the Banff Mountain Book
Festival in 1996. He has written the authorised biography of
Sir Chris Bonington,
High Achiever - The Life and
Climbs of Chris Bonington.
He has filmed and presented a series of climbs in the UK for
the BBC's
Tracks
outdoor oriented strand, as well as climbing and filming on
Chris Bonington's latest expedition to Tibet. He has also
filmed, scripted and narrated the documentary,
Rock Queen
with Catherine Destivelle, the French climbing superstar,
which won him and 'EMMY' award for outstanding electronic
camerawork.
He was Artistic Director of the annual Kendal Mountain Film
Festival, and has recently completed a sixteen hundred mile
bicycle ride from the north of the Shetland Islands to Land's
End, and has written a book about his adventures,
The Middle-Aged
Mountaineer.
He has had two one-man exhibitions of his paintings and
drawings: at the Brewery Arts Centre, Kendal, and most
recently at the Alpine Club in 2004. He is now painting
full-time.
image: courtesy of Jim Curran
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