Banff Mountain Book Competition

Raven’s Witness: The Alaska Life of Richard K. Nelson wins Grand Prize in the 2020 Banff Mountain Book Competition

Winning author Hank Lentfer is awarded the Grand Prize and $4000 in prize money sponsored by Rab.

Banff Mountain Book Competition announces 2020 Award Winners

The international book competition celebrates mountain literature with over $20,000 awarded annually. The award winners represent the best in this year's mounta

Banff Mountain Film and Book Festival, The Banff Centre, 2015

How to Festival - Director's Cut

Meet One of the Greatest Mountaineers of All Time

Reinhold Messner is the most famous mountaineer of all time. Read a convseration about his views on anarchy and obsession, a theological seminary he attended in

What This Adventure Writer and Photographer Takes on Every Trip

Adventurer, writer, and photographer, Bruce Kirkby has spent more than two decades exploring the most remote corners of the planet.

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We recognize, with deep respect and gratitude, our home on the side of Sacred Buffalo Guardian Mountain. In the spirit of respect and truth, we honour and acknowledge the Banff area, known as “Minihrpa” (translated in Stoney Nakoda as “the waterfalls”) and the Treaty 7 territory and oral practices of the Îyârhe Nakoda (Stoney Nakoda) – comprised of the Bearspaw, Chiniki, and Goodstoney Nations – as well as the Tsuut’ina First Nation and the Blackfoot Confederacy comprised of the Siksika, Piikani, and Kainai. We acknowledge that this territory is home to the Shuswap Nations, Ktunaxa Nations, and Metis Nation of Alberta, Rockyview District 4. We acknowledge all Nations who live, work, and play here, help us steward this land, and honour and celebrate this place.