An award-winning Dunblane cinematographer is to give a talk next month to raise money for Forth Valley Scouts.
Keith Partridge - who shot the acclaimed mountain film Touching the Void and whose career spans 30 years - is aiming to raise funds for the Scouts’ trip to the World Scout Jamboree in Korea this summer.
His daughter, 15-year-old Erin is among the Dunblane Scouts headed for Korea.
Money raised through the ‘Life Behind The Lens’ talk will go to the Forth Region World Scout Jamboree Unit which covers Stirling and the Trossachs, Falkirk and West Lothian Scout Districts.
Of the 36 scouts in the Forth Region Unit, 17 are from Stirling and the Trossachs District and 10 from Dunblane. They were picked at a selection weekend in November 2021.
Keith said: “There are a raft of challenges involved in carrying a camera and filming in an extreme environment.
“I’ll be looking at that during the talk. Hopefully it will give people an understanding of how that is done.”
Keith joined the BBC as a trainee aged 18 and began heading into the mountains as a hobby at the same time.
Since then he has been involved in numerous mountain and adventure-based films, including a successful ascent of Everest in 2012.
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He was involved in filming the 2003 movie Touching the Void which is based on the true story of two mountaineers’ struggle for survival while on the previously unclimbed western face of 20,813ft Siula Grande in the Peruvian Andes.
Touching the Void was filmed in the Alps and on Siula Grande itself where the crew experienced extreme conditions while filming including blizzards and winds of up to 60mph.
Keith’s credits also include director of photography (mountain unit) on blockbuster Alien Versus Predator.
Other film and TV credits include ‘Mountains – Andes’ for the BBC Natural History Unit; Discovery Channel project ‘Energy – Chernobyl – The Truth’ on a journey into the reactor hall of the stricken nuclear power plant, and following climber Reinhold Messner on a trekking odyssey across the Himalaya ‘Messner’s Himalaya.’
He has received an International Emmy Award for cinematography for his work on the BBC’s flagship series ‘The Human Planet’.
And his feature-length documentary about one of the world’s best known mountaineers, Chris Bonnington, won ‘Best Mountaineering Film’ at the Bilbao International Film Festival.
The fundraising talk at the Victoria Halls takes place on Friday February 24 at 7.30pm.
Tickets are priced £10 plus a small booking fee.
