Occupation author Genre Non-fiction | Name Bernadette McDonald Role Author | |
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Notable awards Alberta Order of Excellence, King Albert Award, Banff Mountain Book Festival: Grand Prize, Boardman Tasker Prize for Mountain Literature 2011 Relatives Lester Kelly (father), Erna Kelly (mother), Alan McDonald (husband) Books Freedom Climbers, Alpine Warriors, Brotherhood of the Rope: Th, I'll Call You in Kathman, Tomaz Humar | ||
Three questions with bernadette mcdonald
Bernadette McDonald (born 1951) is a Canadian-born author of several non-fiction books, primarily on mountain culture topics, including Brotherhood of the Rope, Tomaž Humar and Freedom Climbers.
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- Three questions with bernadette mcdonald
- Bernadette mcdonald autorka ksi ki ucieczka na szczyt
- Life and career
- As author
- As editor
- References
Bernadette mcdonald autorka ksi ki ucieczka na szczyt
Life and career
McDonald was born in 1951, in Biggar, Saskatchewan, the daughter of Lester and Erna Kelly. She grew up on a prairie farm. Her childhood and most of her education was focused on music, with a special emphasis on the performance of contemporary classical chamber music. She studied at Pacific Lutheran University, the University of Western Ontario and The Banff Centre. She moved to the Canadian Rockies in the early 1970s.
She volunteered for the Banff Mountain Film Festival and she worked at The Banff Centre for twenty years, directing the Banff Mountain Festivals and starting the Mountain Culture division. She resigned from her position of vice president, Mountain Culture in 2006 to concentrate on writing.
She lectures on a variety of mountain topics for universities, festivals and alpine clubs, consults on mountain cultural issues with start-up festivals and mountain institutes, and curates mountain-related exhibitions. She has a number of honors, including the Alberta Order of Excellence, the Summit of Excellence Award, the King Albert Award and several mountain literary prizes such as the 2011 Boardman Tasker Prize for Mountain Literature. She was Canada’s representative at the United Nations to launch the International Year of Mountains.
She has traveled widely, from South Africa to Iceland, Tibet to Patagonia, New Zealand to India, France to Turkey and Italy. She lives with her husband Alan McDonald in Banff, Alberta and in Naramata, British Columbia.