Fully Charged

Fully Charged

Andy is incredibly excited to be working with the Fully Charged team.

Fully charged is a very successful Youtube Channel devoted to Electric Vehicles, Sustainable Energy and Green Living.

Andy joins Robert Llewellyn, Helen Czerski, Maddie Moate, Rory Reid and Chelsea Sexton and he’ll be covering motorbikes, van, boats, planes, conservation, energy and the more unusual electric and sustainable adventures.

Head to Fully Charged Show to see more.

  • United Kingdom
  • 01.03.2020 – Present
  • Climbing, Diving, Presenting, TV, Kayaking, Social, Geology, Freediving, Skydiving, Paramotoring, Wildlife, Conservation, Sustainability, Cars, Bikes, Boats

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The Sahara Challenge

The Sahara Challenge

Andy and Bex were due to join a team from Bailey of Bristol to drive his motorhome  and two off their caravans from the UK to the Sahara desert.

The journey was to take them across Portugal and Spain and through Morocco.

Andy had plans to freediving, SUP, climb and trek in some of the least visited areas on Earth.

However, the trip was due to leave just as the COVID 19 pandemic broke out and had to be postponed. It is hoped the trip will go ahead in 2021.

  • UK, SPAIN, PORTUGAL, MOROCCO
  • 14.03.2020
  • CAMPING, ADVENTURE

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History’s Top 10

History’s Top 10

Andy joined a team of other specialist and experts to look at some of the most impressive achievements of the past for The History Channel.

Andy was there to give a military perspective with his experience as a soldier and archaeologist discussing ancient weapons, battles, military commanders and campaigns.

  • United Kingdom
  • 20.07.2014
  • Presenting, TV, History, Archaeology, Military

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North Gaulton Castle

North Gaulton Castle

Just off the coast of Orkney lies North Gaulton Castle. This huge sea stack balances precariously above a the crashing waves and is incredibly inaccessible. But in 2016 Andy and three other climber managed to stand atop the seasick, something only a handful of people have managed in the past. Previously helicopter had been used to drop people onto it but this time the team rigged a massive Tyrollean Traverse.

Two ropes where anchored to the top of a cliff on one side of a horse-shoe shaped bay. Then the ropes where walked around the cliff edge to be secured on the other side before being pulled tight. This left the ropes running across the mouth of the bay close to the foot of North Gaulton Castle sea-stack.

The team then climbed along the ropes, jumped onto the stack, climbed to the top, abseiled back down, jumped back on the ropes and climbed back up them to the mainland – whilst filming the whole thing along the way.

Andy was there looking at the geology of Orkney to explain how this influenced the Neolithic engineering and culture that grew up and helped explain why Orkney became a centre for innovative building techniques 5,000 years ago as the sea stack is effectively a giant rock core sample.

The film was part of the BBC series Britain’s Ancient Capital – Secrets of Orkney.

  • UK
  • 14.07.2014
  • CLIMBING, TV

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The Old Man of Hoy

The Old Man of Hoy

In a very wet summer of 2014 Andy was asked to cover Sir Chris Bonnington’s attempt to re-climb his famous route on The Old Man of Hoy, one of, if not the, most spectacular, remote and adventurous Trad climbs in Britain. Sir Chris originally made the climb in 1965 and again in 1966 for the BBC’s most audacious live broadcast involving a huge amount of crew, equipment and the British Army.

This time the climb was to mark Sir Chris’ 80th Birthday.  Chris was joined by his friend Leo Houlding, one of  the world’s top climbers with new ascent around the world including the Antarctic.

Chris and Leo invited Andy to be the 3rd member of their partnership. This was a chance to not only meet but climb with two living legends of the climbing world.

The Old Man of Hoy is a seasick of just under 500 feet that towers off the coast of the island of Hoy in the Orkneys. It’s a 5 pitch route, often damp and greasy and covered in Fulmars who hide on small ledges and puke on passing climbers (it’s a defence mechanism).

The weather window was 3 days and after 2 of constant rain and wind the team went for it despite the weather still being wet and windy. With the extra filming required it took most of the day to complete the 2-hour walk in, climb the route and make the 4 abseils down to the bottom.

The Old Man of Hoy was Andy’s favourite climbing route in Britain. It’s remote, rarely trafficked, wild, multi pitch and Trad. It represents the best of British Adventure climb. And to climb it with two greats of the climbing community made it Andy’s all time favourite climb.

The adventure became a two-part special for BBC1’s The One Show.

  • UK
  • 14.07.2014
  • CLIMBING, TV

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Showreel

Showreel

 

Below is Andy’s most recent showreel produced in April 2019.

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The One Show

The One Show

In 2012 Andy became The One Show’s ‘very own Man of Extremes’. And has been making films for them ever since.

He has been the only person to climb Britain’s tallest tree, cave dived in unexplored mines, paddled across England, raced a peregrine falcon whilst skydiving, discovered lost shipwrecks, climbed remote sea stacks and even been the voice of Action Man.

He’s covered everything from wildlife and archaeology to geology and social matter but always with an element of extreme adventure.

He continues his work into 2018 and this year will see him paramotoring, caving, climbing, diving, skydiving and more.

  • United Kingdom
  • 20.07.2012-2018
  • Climbing, Diving, Presenting, TV, Kayaking, History, Archaeology, Social, Geology, Freediving, Skydiving, Paramotoring, Wildlife

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The Adventure Show

The Adventure Show

And first appeared on BBC2’s The Adventure Show when he produced some films about his solo diving exploration of The Cave of Skulls. After that he did a series of films for the show, first about free diving and snorkelling around Scotland and then about kayaking down the rivers, lochs, estuaries and seas in the South East part of Scotland.

  • Scotland
  • 14.07.2010 – 2013
  • Climbing, Diving, Presenting, TV, Kayaking, Walking, Freediving, Cave Diving

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Beyond Bionic

Beyond Bionic

2017 saw a break from the norm for Andy as he began filming for a brand new series on Children’s BBC called Beyond Bionic.

Co-created and developed by Andy and the team at CBBC this 13 part series sees Andy compete is some amazing stunts and challenges to see if he can match the abilities of some of the natural world’s superheroes. Using cutting edge technology and help from experts he tries to race a Peregrine Falcon in freewill using jets strapped to his legs, jump 18 metres into the air, climb a 12 storey glass building, run over 40 mph, glide like a Flying Squirrel, stand inside a fireball and dive to over 600 metres deep.

From sharks to geckos and falcons to gorillas this show teaches viewers about some incredible animals as well as the technology, engineering, physics and physiology it’ll take to beat them.

 

  • World Wide
  • 20.02.2018
  • WILDLIFE, SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, ENGINEERING, PHYSICS, MEDICAL, TV, PRESENTING

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The People Remember

The People Remember

In 2014 and again in 2015 Andy presented alongside BBC News Presenter Sophie Raworth on The People Remember. Filmed at the Imperial War Museums in London and Duxford in front of a live audience the show commemorated the lives of those on the front line and at home during conflicts from World War One up to present day.

With celebrity guest, serving service personnel and veterans joining Sophie and Andy on the sofa as well as tours of the museum and outside broadcasts the show ran every day from Monday to Friday leading up to Remembrance Sunday.

  • UK
  • 11.11.2014-2015
  • HISTORY, MILITARY, TV, PRESENTING, SOCIAL

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