Banff Centre Mountain Film and Book Festival

Rival Antarctic explorers headline 2013 Banff Mountain Film and Book Festival

The Banff Mountain Film and Book Festival marks the largest festival of its kind, a gathering of filmmakers, photographers, writers, adventurers, conservationis

Writer, naturalist, teacher Ben Gadd awarded 2013 Summit of ExcellenceAwarded by The Banff Centre and CMH Heli-Skiing & Summer Adventures

Ben Gadd, a teacher, naturalist, guide, and award-winning author, will receive the 2013 Summit of Excellence Award.

2013 Banff Mountain Photography Competition

The judges for the 2013 Banff Mountain Photography Competition have chosen not to award a winner this year.

From the film Crossing the Ice, James Castrission, Aleks Gamme, Justin Jones

Australians’ South Pole adventure, Crossing the Ice, awarded 2012 Banff Mountain Film Competition Grand Prize

The film Crossing the Ice has won the Grand Prize at the 2012 Banff Mountain Film and Book Festival.

Fire Season awarded Grand Prize in 2012 Banff Mountain Book Competition

Fire Season: Field Notes from a Wilderness Lookout has been awarded the Grand Prize in the 2012 Banff Mountain Book Competition.

2012 Banff Mountain Film and Book Festival to screen world’s best mountain sport, culture, environment, adventure, and exploration films

Over the nine-day festival, audiences will experience the world’s best in the mountain genre -- films and books chronicling the passions and obsessions of mount

David Suzuki, Dasho Kinley Dorji headline 2012 Banff Mountain Film and Book Festival

This fall, the Banff Mountain Film and Book Festival will host Canadian conservationist, writer, and broadcaster David Suzuki who will be live onstage in conver

2011 Banff Mountain Film Competition Grand Prize winner a visceral image of the world at 8,000m

Filmmaker Anson Fogel took Richards’ footage and created Cold, a haunting and visceral film about the climb, which has won the Grand Prize at the 2011 Banff Mou

2011 Banff Mountain Film and Book Festival to screen world’s best in outdoor, adventure, environment, adrenaline sports, and cultural films

Over the nine-day festival, audiences will experience the world’s best films chronicling the passions and obsessions of mountaineers, endurance and extreme athl

Legendary travel writer Dervla Murphy and adventurer Leo Houlding headline 2011 Banff Mountain Film and Book Festival

Passionate about cycling, politics, the conservation of the natural world, and a fine pint, Dervla Murphy will make a rare public appearance at the 2011 Banff M

Epic California climbing history wins 2010 Banff Mountain Book Festival Grand Prize

John Long and Dean Fidelman’s book The Stonemasters: California Climbing in the Seventies (Stonemaster Press, USA, 2009) has won the Grand Prize at the 2010 Ban

2010 Banff Mountain Film Festival Grand Prize winner travels into remote Peruvian culture

With its moving insight into the place where tradition and modernity meet, Mi Chacra has been awarded the Grand Prize at the 2010 Banff Mountain Film Festival.

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