Banff Mountain Book Festival
The Banff Mountain Book Festival is an annual book festival held at the Banff Centre in Banff, Canada.
Grand Prize
[edit]- 1994: Chris Bonington and Audrey Salkeld (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, Niall Grimes, 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[15]
- 2015: Richard Wagamese, Medicine Walk[16]
- 2016: Jean McNeil, Ice Diaries: An Antarctic Memoir[17]
- 2017: Jim Herrington, The Climbers[18]
- 2018: Paolo Cognetti, The Eight Mountains
- 2019: Bryce Andrews, The Life and Death of a Grizzly Bear
- 2020: Hank Lentfer, Raven's Witness: The Alaska Life of Richard K. Nelson
- 2021: Suzanne Simard, Finding the Mother Tree: Uncovering the Wisdom and Intelligence of the Forest
- 2022: Jonathan Howland, Native Air
- 2023: Helen Mort, The Line Above the Sky
Other prizes
[edit]- Best Book — Mountain Literature
- Best Book — Mountain Image
- Best Book — Adventure Travel
- Best Book — Mountaineering History
- Best Book — Guidebook
- Special Jury Mention
- Canadian Rockies Award
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Canadian Writers: Thomas Wharton
- ^ "Banff Mountain Book Festival award winners 2001" (PDF). Banff Mountain Book Festival. 2001. Retrieved April 27, 2018.
- ^ "Climbing autobiography takes top honours at Banf". Pique. November 8, 2002. Archived from the original on 2018-04-27. Retrieved April 27, 2018.
- ^ Dougald MacDonald (November 5, 2004). "Banff Book Awards". Climbing. Archived from the original on 2013-03-21. Retrieved April 27, 2018.
- ^ Dougald MacDonald (November 5, 2004). "Banff Book Awards". Climbing. Archived from the original on 2018-04-27. Retrieved April 27, 2018.
- ^ "Banff Mountain Book Festival 2005". Banff Mountain Book Festival. November 2005. Archived from the original on 2006-10-08.
- ^ "Banff Mountain Book Festival 2006". Banff Mountain Book Festival. November 2006. Archived from the original on 2007-04-29.
- ^ "Banff Mountain Book Festival 2007". Banff Mountain Book Festival. November 2007. Archived from the original on 2008-03-12.
- ^ "Banff Mountain Book Festival 2008". Banff Mountain Book Festival. November 2008. Archived from the original on 2009-01-23.
- ^ "Banff Mountain Book Festival 2009". Banff Mountain Book Festival. November 2009. Archived from the original on 2009-11-02.
- ^ "Banff Mountain Book Festival 2010". Banff Mountain Book Festival. November 2010. Archived from the original on 2010-11-13.
- ^ "Banff Mountain Book Festival 2011". Banff Mountain Book Festival. November 2011. Archived from the original on 2011-11-04.
- ^ Joe Spring (November 2, 2012). "'Fire Season' Wins Banff Book Competition Grand Prize". Outside. Retrieved February 7, 2018.
- ^ "Grand Prize 2013". Banff Mountain Book Festival. November 2013. Archived from the original on 2013-11-03.
- ^ "John Porter's One Day as a Tiger wins 2014 Banff Mountain Book Competition Grand Prize". www.banffcentre.ca. Retrieved 2022-09-21.
- ^ Chris Ketchum (November 9, 2015). "Banff Mountain Book Competition Announces Winners". Rock and Ice Magazine. Retrieved June 15, 2016.
- ^ Caty Enders (January 8, 2017). "At the Banff Mountain Film Festival, the future of adventure sports is female". The Guardian. Retrieved February 7, 2018.
- ^ Andrew Travers (November 22, 2017). "Two new books destined for Aspen coffee tables". Aspen Times. Retrieved February 7, 2018.
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