Author Matt Dickenson inspires budding writers

An author and filmmaker visited children at a Backwell School to talk about his adventures around the world.

Award-winning writer, filmmaker and adventurer Matt Dickenson talked to year seven and eight pupils about his film projects in Antarctica, Africa and the Himalayas and his trek up Mount Everest.

Matt has begun writing fiction for teenagers and took copies of his latest novel The Everest Files to the school.