Banff Mountain Book Festival

Banff Mountain Book Festival
Genre	fairs, festivals, conferences
Location(s)	Banff, Canada
Inaugurated	1976
Organised by	Banff Centre
Website	banffcentre.ca/banffmountainfestival

The Banff Mountain Book Festival is an annual book festival held every autumn at the Banff Centre in Banff, Canada. The festival started in 1976. ^[1]

A primary event is the Banf Mountain Book Award.

Banf Mountain Book Award

Grand Prize

• 1994: Chris Bonington and Audrey Salkeld (editors), Heroic Climbs
• 1995: Thomas Wharton, Icefields ^[2]
• 1996: Stephen Venables, Himalaya Alpine-Style: The Most Challenging Routes on the Highest Peaks
• 1997: Stefano Ardito  [ it ], 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 ^[3]
• 2002: W. H. Murray, The Evidence of Things Not Seen: A Mountaineer's Tale ^[4]
• 2003: David Roberts, Escape from Lucania: An Epic Story of Survival ^[5]
• 2004: Chris Duff, Southern Exposure: A Solo Sea Kayaking Journey Around New Zealand's South Island ^[6]
• 2005: Karsten Heuer, Being Caribou: Five Months on Foot with a Caribou Herd ^[7]
• 2006: Jeff Long, The Wall ^[8]
• 2007: James M. Tabor, Forever on the Mountain: The Truth Behind One of Mountaineering's Most Controversial and Mysterious Disasters ^[9]
• 2008: Sid Marty, The Black Grizzly of Whiskey Creek ^[10]
• 2009: Jerry Moffatt, Niall Grimes, Jerry Moffatt: Revelations ^[11]
• 2010: John Long, The Stonemasters: California Rock Climbers in the Seventies ^[12]
• 2011: Bernadette McDonald, Freedom Climbers ^[13]
• 2012: Philip Connors, Fire Season: Field Notes From a Wilderness Lookout ^[14]
• 2013: Tim Cope, On the Trail of Genghis Khan: An Epic Journey Through the Land of the Nomads ^[15]
• 2014: John Porter, One Day as a Tiger: Alex Macintyre and the Birth of Light and Fast Alpinism ^[16]
• 2015: Richard Wagamese, Medicine Walk ^[17]
• 2016: Jean McNeil, Ice Diaries: An Antarctic Memoir ^[18]
• 2017: Jim Herrington, The Climbers ^[19]
• 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 categories

• Mountain Literature
• Mountain Image
• Adventure Travel
• Mountaineering History
• Guidebook
• Special Jury Mention
• Canadian Rockies Award

See also

• Banff Mountain Film Festival
• Boardman Tasker Prize for Mountain Literature

References

1. "Banff Mountain Film and Book Festival". 11th Hour Racing. Retrieved 2025-02-06.
2. Canadian Writers: Thomas Wharton
3. "Banff Mountain Book Festival award winners 2001" (PDF). Banff Mountain Book Festival. 2001. Retrieved April 27, 2018.
4. "Climbing autobiography takes top honours at Banf". Pique. November 8, 2002. Archived from the original on 2018-04-27. Retrieved April 27, 2018.
5. Dougald MacDonald (November 5, 2004). "Banff Book Awards". Climbing . Archived from the original on 2013-03-21. Retrieved April 27, 2018.
6. Dougald MacDonald (November 5, 2004). "Banff Book Awards". Climbing . Archived from the original on 2018-04-27. Retrieved April 27, 2018.
7. "Banff Mountain Book Festival 2005". Banff Mountain Book Festival. November 2005. Archived from the original on 2006-10-08.
8. "Banff Mountain Book Festival 2006". Banff Mountain Book Festival. November 2006. Archived from the original on 2007-04-29.
9. "Banff Mountain Book Festival 2007". Banff Mountain Book Festival. November 2007. Archived from the original on 2008-03-12.
10. "Banff Mountain Book Festival 2008". Banff Mountain Book Festival. November 2008. Archived from the original on 2009-01-23.
11. "Banff Mountain Book Festival 2009". Banff Mountain Book Festival. November 2009. Archived from the original on 2009-11-02.
12. "Banff Mountain Book Festival 2010". Banff Mountain Book Festival. November 2010. Archived from the original on 2010-11-13.
13. "Banff Mountain Book Festival 2011". Banff Mountain Book Festival. November 2011. Archived from the original on 2011-11-04.
14. Joe Spring (November 2, 2012). "'Fire Season' Wins Banff Book Competition Grand Prize". Outside. Retrieved February 7, 2018.
15. "Grand Prize 2013". Banff Mountain Book Festival. November 2013. Archived from the original on 2013-11-03.
16. "John Porter's One Day as a Tiger wins 2014 Banff Mountain Book Competition Grand Prize". www.banffcentre.ca. Retrieved 2022-09-21.
17. Chris Ketchum (November 9, 2015). "Banff Mountain Book Competition Announces Winners". Rock and Ice Magazine. Retrieved June 15, 2016.
18. Caty Enders (January 8, 2017). "At the Banff Mountain Film Festival, the future of adventure sports is female". The Guardian . Retrieved February 7, 2018.
19. Andrew Travers (November 22, 2017). "Two new books destined for Aspen coffee tables". Aspen Times. Retrieved February 7, 2018.

External links

• Banff Mountain Festivals