Banff Mountain Book Festival

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
  • 1994 Chris Bonington and Audrey Saukeld (editors), Heroic Climbs
  • 1995 Thomas Wharton, Icefields[1]
  • 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[2]
  • 2002 W. H. Murray, The Evidence of Things Not Seen: A Mountaineer's Tale[3]
  • 2003 David Roberts, Escape from Lucania: An Epic Story of Survival[4]
  • 2004 Chris Duff, Southern Exposure: A Solo Sea Kayaking Journey Around New Zealand's South Island[5]
  • 2005 Karsten Heuer, Being Caribou: Five Months on Foot with a Caribou Herd[6]
  • 2006 Jeff Long, The Wall[7]
  • 2007 James M. Tabor, Forever on the Mountain: The Truth Behind One of Mountaineering's Most Controversial and Mysterious Disasters[8]
  • 2008 Sid Marty, The Black Grizzly of Whiskey Creek[9]
  • 2009 Jerry Moffatt, Jerry Moffatt: Revelations[10]
  • 2010 John Long, The Stonemasters : California Rock Climbers in the Seventies[11]
  • 2011 Bernadette McDonald, Freedom Climbers[12]
  • 2012 Philip Connors, Fire Season: Field Notes From a Wilderness Lookout[13]
  • 2013 Tim Cope, On the Trail of Genghis Khan: An Epic Journey Through the Land of the Nomads[14]
  • 2014 John Porter, One Day as a Tiger: Alex Macintyre and the Birth of Light and Fast Alpinism
  • 2015 Richard Wagamese, Medicine Walk[15]
  • 2016 Jean McNeil, Ice Diaries: An Antarctic Memoir[16]
  • 2017 Jim Herrington, The Climbers[17]

Other categories
  • Best Book — Mountain Literature
  • Best Book — Mountain Image
  • Best Book — Adventure Travel
  • Best Book — Mountaineering History
  • Special Jury Mention
  • Canadian Rockies Award

See also

References
  1. Canadian Writers: Thomas Wharton
  2. "Banff Mountain Book Festival award winners 2001" (PDF). Banff Mountain Book Festival. 2001. Retrieved April 27, 2018.
  3. "Climbing autobiography takes top honours at Banf". Pique. November 8, 2002. Archived from the original on 2018-04-27. Retrieved April 27, 2018.
  4. Dougald MacDonald (November 5, 2004). "Banff Book Awards". Climbing. Archived from the original on 2013-03-21. Retrieved April 27, 2018.
  5. Dougald MacDonald (November 5, 2004). "Banff Book Awards". Climbing. Archived from the original on 2018-04-27. Retrieved April 27, 2018.
  6. "Banff Mountain Book Festival 2005". Banff Mountain Book Festival. November 2005. Archived from the original on 2006-10-08.
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  8. "Banff Mountain Book Festival 2007". Banff Mountain Book Festival. November 2007. Archived from the original on 2008-03-12.
  9. "Banff Mountain Book Festival 2008". Banff Mountain Book Festival. November 2008. Archived from the original on 2009-01-23.
  10. "Banff Mountain Book Festival 2009". Banff Mountain Book Festival. November 2009. Archived from the original on 2009-11-02.
  11. "Banff Mountain Book Festival 2010". Banff Mountain Book Festival. November 2010. Archived from the original on 2010-11-13.
  12. "Banff Mountain Book Festival 2011". Banff Mountain Book Festival. November 2011. Archived from the original on 2011-11-04.
  13. Joe Spring (November 2, 2012). "'Fire Season' Wins Banff Book Competition Grand Prize". Outside. Retrieved February 7, 2018.
  14. "Grand Prize 2013". Banff Mountain Book Festival. November 2013. Archived from the original on 2013-11-03.
  15. Chris Ketchum (November 9, 2015). "Banff Mountain Book Competition Announces Winners". Rock and Ice Magazine. Retrieved June 15, 2016.
  16. Caty Enders (January 8, 2017). "At the Banff Mountain Film Festival, the future of adventure sports is female". The Guardian. Retrieved February 7, 2018.
  17. Andrew Travers (November 22, 2017). "Two new books destined for Aspen coffee tables". Aspen Times. Retrieved February 7, 2018.


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