A great slide show can inspire and educate an outings club, retail audience, or outdoor community better than thousands of dollars worth of advertising, and Andy is a master of the medium. He has produced and toured a dozen shows, and each one features:
• Messages and themes that look beyond recreation, tailored to speak not just to climbers but to anyone interested in the outdoors.
• Professional production quality using reliable, cutting-edge digital equipment (not Power Point!)
• Capability to present at venues from homes to grand theaters
• Lively tempo that alternates insightful narration with segments of carefully arranged, synchronized music.
• Andy helps each venue generate media exposure to make sure that every event is a success.
Here are his most recent, currently available shows:
 Ways to the Sky
The Story of Mountaineering
in North America
The Ways to the Sky book wasn’t big enough for all the historical photos and tales that Andy collected, so he built a show that gives an audience a grand evening tour through the core of our continent’s mountaineering history.
• Over 300 historical images--over half of which are not in the book--plus Andy's expert narration, plus period music, really give a feel for the changing decades of climbing.
• Unifying theme of the evolving spirit of “can-do” that is the core thread connecting all generations of mountaineering.
• Historical figures, from the explorers like John Muir and Conrad Kain to the technical pioneers like Fred Beckey, to the modern, super-climbers--plus more greats you’ve never heard of--make each period come alive with personality.
• Four-color poster underwritten by W.L. Gore, Patagonia and Black Diamond helps promote the show
• Audiences from California to British Columbia to the Telluride Mountain Film Festival have given this show rave reviews.
Show length: approximately 75 minutes
 High Sierra, High on Skis
There may be no better place on earth to ski the backcountry than the High Sierra, and Andy's latest show traces the personalities, trends, methods and adventures of the many people who have sailed by board over the Sierra wilderness.
• Pictures and stories from the original pioneers like Snowshoe Thompson and Orland Bartholomew, to the classic European immigrants and Sierra Club pioneers, from the hippie expeditions to the modern fiends of telemark, snowboard and alpine gear.
• The theme of self-sufficiency, exploration and fun tempered with caution and experience. You'll be amazed at how much fun so many skilled folks have had for so long up in the snowy high country.
Show length: 70 minutes
Tall Mountain, A Karakoram Summer
Summer 2008, Andy was one of a small team that went to climb Broad Peak and K2, the 12th and 2nd highest peaks on earth. Two-time Everest summiter Dave Watson and Dan McCann hoped to ski both peaks, and Andy just hoped to climb, document the action with both still pictures and audio, and come home in one piece. Now he's put together what initial audience members are already calling his best show yet.
• Images of Baltis, schoolchildren, the land, the peaks and the climbers and skiers
• Scenes mix with audio and narration, and the story unfolds like a movie, if anything even more evocative.
• You're virtuallly right there as Dave and Andy climb to 25,000 feet, as Dave skis down some incredibly hairy terrain, and as the team helps survivors from the dramatic and tragic events on K2.
Show length: 70 minutes |
Any life fully lived is an adventure, and all adventures seek a fuller life as its goal. This message comes across with vibrant intensity as Andy takes you through his mountaineering career. From making the commitment to know mountains to achieving brilliant new routes in the Himalaya and Andes, to the despair of struggling to survive a plane crash on a Yukon glacier, this is a riveting show. From the ashes of disaster Andy delivers a message of looking toward the future with new awareness and deeper optimism. 