Jamie Andrew

Biography

Jamie Andrew is an incredible mountaineer from Scotland who lost his hands and feet in a horrific accident in the French Alps.

Miraculously, despite his handicap, Jamie has carried on with his mountaineering career and has made some amazing ascents all over the world, raising many thousands of pounds for charity along the way.

He is a great inspiration and motivational speaker and tells his story with passion, enthusiasm, sincerity and humor and invariably leaves no-one in the audience unaffected.

In July 2001 Jamie left the company for which he was working to pursue personal projects.
,br> His autobiography, Life and Limb, was published in March 2004 by Portrait to great acclaim. The book was shortlisted for the Boardman Tasker Prize and was the winner of the prestigious Banff Mountain Book Festival Prize for Literature.

Jamie has also written numerous articles about his adventures and experiences, published in The Scotsman, The Observer, Scotland on Sunday, The Sunday Mail and various climbing magazines.

He has given motivational talks to companies, conferences, mountaineering clubs, schools and universities throughout the UK and Europe.

His talks include aspects of attainable goals; problem solving -especially solving `big problems with small solutions`; and developing personal confidence through achievement.

Publications

Life and Limb

Jamie Andrew`s rescue after five nights trapped by a ferocious storm in Chamonix has passed into Alpine legend; his survival was miraculous - but his close friend died in his arms and Jamie himself lost both his hands and legs to frostbite. His description of that episode is both enthralling and harrowing. The book also describes Jamie`s life since he learnt to walk again on prosthetic legs - and since then he has married his long-term girlfriend, Anna, and, astonishingly, both climbed Mont Blanc again and ran in the London Marathon.