Mountaineering Ireland Lynam Lecture & Award - Leo Houlding

We are delighted to announce that Leo Houlding will be the recipient of this year’s Mountaineering Ireland Lynam Award.

If modern adventure has a face, it looks a lot like Leo Houlding. World renowned climber, alpinist & explorer of steep terrain. Leo has led major expeditions & hard first ascents on every continent from El Capitan to Everest from the Arctic to the Amazon and Antarctica. With roots on the rock, these days he is as much an explorer as a climber combining epic polar crossings and jungle journeys with big wall free climbs on recent projects. He has produced multiple award-winning films of these expeditions taking modern action sports to the most remote corners of Earth.

Leo is a world-renowned rock climber, Expedition Leader & TV personality. Born in 1980 he has spent his entire adult life exploring the more remote and spectacular corners of Earth, undertaking extreme adventures and pioneering modern exploration.

His background as a climber has seen him spend many months in some of the most awe inspiring, extreme & rarely visited environments on Earth and climb many of the world’s toughest and tallest mountains, including mount Everest.

Since the inauguration of the Lynam Lecture in in 2011 in memory of Joss Lynam, many leading national and international mountaineers have delivered enthralling lectures.

An articulate communicator, Leo Houlding has inspired audiences around the world with his tales of adrenalin-fuelled exploits. He has accomplished more than most would in a lifetime from an early age and we believe he is a very worthy recipient of the Mountaineering Ireland Lynam Award, and we look forward to a captivating lecture.

The Mountaineering Ireland Lynam Lecture & Award 2022 will take place in the Chartered Accountants Ireland Lecture Hall, 47 – 49 Pearse Street, Dublin 2, doors open at 18:30 with the lecture commencing at 19:30 sharp.