LATEST NEWS – May 2008

The Lakes episode of Griff Rhys Jones' programme Mountain, in which Gordon appears, is being repeated on Wed 14 May at 7.00pm on BBC2.

On March 1st, Gordon interviewed Joe Simpson at the Sheffield Adventure Film Festival. The audience response was such that organiser Matt Heason described it as 'the highlight of the festival'. Watch three clips from the interview: first excerpt - second excerpt - third excerpt. Gordon was also one of the judges (with Ian Parnell and Niall Grimes) of the best films in six categories.

In November 2007 Gordon introduced Stanley Kubrick's 'The Shining' to a packed house at the Ritz Cinema in Belper, giving a 55-minute presentation about his work editing the highly acclaimed music score.

Earlier in the year Gordon's exhibition, The Crux: 25 iconic British climbing images, was at the Edinburgh Mountain Film Festival and the National Mountaineering Exhibition at Rheged in Cumbria. He also featured in two TV programmes: the BBC1 Griff Rhys Jones' series Mountain and the BBC2 series Balderdash & Piffle.

In February 2007, Gordon's gallery on UKClimbing.com, which attracts over six million visitors per month, was voted 'best gallery', out of over 1000 galleries, two weeks running.

— Site last updated, May 8, 2008 —

ABOUT GORDON

Internationally acclaimed award-winning author and landscape photographer Gordon Stainforth is perhaps best known for his lavishly illustrated personal photo-essays on the British hills and mountains: Eyes to the Hills, Lakeland, The Cuillin, and The Peak: Past and Present; but in the course of his career he has also been involved in a wide range of other creative pursuits - film and music editor, book and exhibition designer, and novelist (see Biography). He is presently involved from day to day with book reviewing, lecturing and website design (using the latest CSS and PHP techniques - see GS Web Design), while concentrating on his main interest, philosophy.

Gordon's main project at present is a major book on mountain philosophy which has been in preparation for nine years. Further details to be announced in the Spring.