Expedition leader Cat Burford shares her path to leading expeditions in remote environments, from Antarctica to the Arctic, in the Royal Scottish Geographical Society's Inspiring People Talks.
Cat Burford comes to the University of Edinburgh on Thursday 4 February as part of the Royal Scottish Geographical Society's Inspiring People talks. It's a talk about how she ended up leading expeditions in some of the remotest places on earth, and the title gives you the scale of it: Antarctica to the Arctic.
Burford is an expedition leader, and that's the core of the evening. She'll be tracing her path to that role, talking through what it takes to run an expedition in those kinds of environments. The RSGS Inspiring People series brings together explorers, filmmakers and writers who've worked in the world's most remote corners, so this fits right into that: a first-hand account of someone who's actually out there doing it, rather than just reading about it.
The talk is hosted at the University of Edinburgh, which is one of Scotland's ancient universities, founded in 1582. It's the sixth-oldest university in the English-speaking world, and a good deal of its estate is in the historic Old Town. It draws around 47,000 applications every year, making it the third most popular university in the UK by volume of applicants. The talk itself is at the university's Edinburgh South site.
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So, if you've ever wondered what it actually takes to lead an expedition from one end of the planet to the other, this is your chance to hear it from someone who's done it. Cat Burford at the University of Edinburgh, Thursday 4 February.
