Ep 40 - Joe French - Film maker, Climber, Musician, Barefoot runner, and Author

‘Healing is an ongoing process. That is how to start moving forward. It's not a case of getting a certificate, ticking a box, and saying that I'm healed. It's about accepting what has happened and allowing it to become part of who I am, without it defining who I am, leaving me frozen in time.’ Joe French - Out of Mind

Joe French is a Film maker, Climber, Musician, Barefoot runner, and author.

Combining his love of climbing, mountains and storytelling, Joe taught himself to become a climbing cameraman and started making films on the cliffs of Ben Nevis and beyond. This started a successful career in TV and Joe was soon working as a self-shooting Producer/Director on high profile productions, including recreating Sir Ernest Shackleton’s epic journey of survival in Antarctica.

But Joe has experienced a great deal of trauma and tragedy whilst filming in the mountains. He has been lucky to survive on several occasions. In 2015, he was about to fulfil a dream of a lifetime – to climb Everest and film it, when tragedy struck and Joe found himself at the epicentre of an earthquake which killed nearly 9,000 people. Only a few years previously, his team of Sherpas had been killed in another avalanche, and soon after that, Julie, his wife, was diagnosed with cancer. His experience of Post-Traumatic Stress and the subsequent journeys of healing is the subject of his book Out of Mind, which is out now via Sandstone Press/Vertebrate Publishing.

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