Banff Mountain Book Festival

Updated on Dec 09, 2024

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The Banff Mountain Book Festival is an annual book festival held at the Banff Centre in Banff, Canada.

The following prizes are awarded:

Grand Prize

1995 Jim Curran, K2: The Story of the Savage Mountain

1996 Stephen Venables, Himalaya Alpine-Style: The Most Challenging Routes on the Highest Peaks

1997 Stefano Ardito, Mont Blanc: Discovery and Conquest of the Giant of the Alps

1998 Audrey Salkeld, World Mountaineering: The World's Great Mountains

1999 Paul Pritchard, The Totem Pole

2000 Bradford Washburn, Bradford Washburn: Mountain Photography

2001 Roger Hubank, Hazard's Way

2002 W. H. Murray, The Evidence of Things Not Seen: A Mountaineer's Tale

2003 David Roberts, Escape from Lucania: An Epic Story of Survival

2004 Chris Duff, Southern Exposure: A Solo Sea Kayaking Journey Around New Zealand's South Island

2005 Karsten Heuer, Being Caribou: Five Months on Foot with a Caribou Herd

2006 Jeff Long, The Wall

2007 James M. Tabor, Forever on the Mountain: The Truth Behind One of Mountaineering's Most Controversial and Mysterious Disasters

2008 Sid Marty, The Black Grizzly of Whiskey Creek

2009 Jerry Moffatt, Jerry Moffatt: Revelations

2010 John Long, The Stonemasters : California Rock Climbers in the Seventies

2011 Bernadette McDonald, Freedom Climbers

2012 Philip Connors, Fire Season: Field Notes From a Wilderness Lookout

2013 Tim Cope, On the Trail of Genghis Khan: An Epic Journey Through the Land of the Nomads

2014 John Porter, One Day as a Tiger: Alex Macintyre and the Birth of Light and Fast Alpinism

2015 Richard Wagamese, Medicine Walk

Best Book — Mountain Literature

Best Book — Mountain Image

Best Book — Adventure Travel

Best Book — Mountaineering History

Special Jury Mention

Canadian Rockies Award

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