CUMBRIA'S world-renowned climber and explorer Leo Houlding will be discussing his latest record-breaking adventure on stage in the county.

Considered one of the all-time best climbers, this year he became the first to complete an ascent on the north west face of the Mirror Wall, in remotest Greenland.

On Thursday November 10, he brings the brand-new "Audience With…" style lecture show, Reflections: The Mirror Wall, to the Carnegie Theatre, in Workington - the only Cumbrian date on the tour.

Renowned for audacious ascents of epic faces, he was considered a climbing prodigy from an early age, starting by scaling the Old Man of Hoy at just 10 years old and becoming the British Junior Indoor Climbing Champion at 16.

At 34, Leo has climbed the most difficult and highest mountains in the world, is a veteran of scores of epic ascents, including Everest, and now specialises in free climbing the most technical peaks and biggest walls in the world.

Also an experienced base jumper, Leo pushes the limits of exploratory adventure by taking the ultimate in extreme sports to the most extreme environments.

He has captivated and inspired audiences around the world with his tales of adrenaline-fuelled exploits and has appeared on BBC's Top Gear, his own show on Virgin One, called Take Me to the Edge, and the IMAX movie The Wildest Dream, retracing the last steps of Mallory and Irvine on their fateful 1924 Everest expedition.

Leo also produced and featured in the multi-award-winning movie The Asgard Project – an Arctic adventure to free climb and base jump from one of the world’s toughest and most remote big walls - and, more recently, he teamed up with Monty Halls for the Discovery Channel’s Lost Worlds TV series.

In short, Leo has ventured to many of the harshest environments on Earth, to climb the toughest mountains and big walls on Earth, including Ulvetanna in Antarctica, considered to be the hardest climb in the world.

In Reflections: The Mirror Wall, Leo discusses the contrast between adventure TV and adventure film, and reflects on the conflict between a life of extreme adventure and the responsibilities and homely joys of new fatherhood, juxtaposed against the undying drive for the next great quest.

The show on Thursday November 10 starts at 7.30pm, and tickets are available from the Carnegie Theatre box office.