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and updated on
May 4, 2006: |
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Personal
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| Name: |
Bill Birkett
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| Address |
Dale View
Little Langdale
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NR AMBLESIDE
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Cumbria
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| Postcode |
LA22 9NY
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| Phone |
015394 37420
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| Mobile |
07789 304 949
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| Email |
bill.birkett1@btopenworld.com
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| Professional writer and photographer specialising in the great outdoors, wild and steep places, mountains, climbing, walking, Trekking, National Parks, flora and fauna, archaeology, geology and travel worldwide. Author/photographer of 20+ books, including Lakeland’s Greatest Pioneers, Women Climbing, Classic Rock Climbs in Great Britain, Modern Rock and Ice Climbing, French Rock, The Hillwalker’s Manual. Member of the Society of Authors, British Guild of Travel Writers, European Federation of the Associations of Tourism Journalists, Institution of Civil Engineers, Fell and Rock Climbing Club, The Climbers’ Club. Consultant for the Adventure Equipment Industry.
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| Proprietor: Bill Birkett Photographic Library.
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| Photographic material supplied to the publishing world, photographic commissions, lectures and slide shows, writing and photographing own books, occasional contributor to CNN Traveller magazine, Cumbria Magazine, TGO, Climber, On the Edge, and Climb.
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| 2005 OWG ‘Awards For Excellence’ first prize Outdoor Book Category, 2005 Lakeland Book of The Year Awards; Highly Commended in the Guide Books and Local History Category for ‘A Year In The Life of The Langdale Valleys’. 2002 Kendal Film Festival Photographic Award: First Prize for Professional Mountain Photographer category. Exploring the Lakes and Low Fells Vols 1 & 2; 1997 OWG Award for Photographic Excellence (Third Prize); 1985 Kendal Film Festival Photographic Award: First prize for Climber’s World.
A Year In the Life of Glencoe, A Year In the Life of Borrowdale,
A Year In the Life of The Langdale Valleys (2005 winner OWG ‘Award For Excellence’ category Outdoor Book) , Exploring Lakes and Low Fells vols 1&2, Classic Treks of the World (General Editor and contributor); Great British Ridge Walks, Complete Lakeland Fells.
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| Main areas of interest | |
| Mountains and wild places.
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