Top Qs
Timeline
Chat
Perspective
Banff Mountain Book Festival
Canadian book festival From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Remove ads
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.
Remove ads
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, 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
Remove ads
See also
References
External links
Wikiwand - on
Seamless Wikipedia browsing. On steroids.
Remove ads