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Banff Mountain Festivals: October 30 - November 7, 2004

Banff Mountain Book Festival
October 30 - November 7, 2004


Bringing mountain stories to life!
 
The Banff Mountain Book Festival, presented by Canadian Mountain Holidays and CBC Radio-Canada, celebrates the world’s best mountain and adventure travel stories through readings, presentations, seminars, book signings, a book fair, and the presentation of internationally recognized awards for mountain literature. See you at the 2005 Banff Mountain Book Festival, November 2 - 4!

Book Awards 2004
Book Finalists

Here is what took place...
Program
Highlights

 

Detailed Schedule

Wednesday, November 3
Alex Huber - The Vertical Horizon
Chris Jones, George Lowe - Climbing the North Twin

Thursday, November 4
Daytime Program – included Bill Hatcher Mountain Photography, Exploring Mountain Writing, Sandra Noel’s Everest Pioneer and Jon Bowermaster’s Into the Altiplano
Literary Lunch – Warren Macdonald A Test of Will
Aron Ralston - Between a Rock and a Hard Place
Rick Ridgeway and Conrad Anker - Across the Big Open

Friday, November 5
Daytime Program – included Mountaineering History, interview with Henry Barber, Vivien Bowers’ In the Path of an Avalanche, and Arno Ilgner’s The Rock Warrior’s Way
Literary Lunch – Colin Wells Bite-sized biographies of British Climbers…

presented by: sponsored by:
Canadian Mountain Holidays CBC Radio Canada Banff Mountain Book Festival Presenting Sponsors National Geographic Patagonia Dunham Bootmakers MSR Banff Mountain Film Festival Sponsors
with assistance from:
  Alpine Club of Canada Mountaineers Books Banff Book and Art Den The Alberta Foundation for the Arts with assistance from
 

For local information on CBC please visit www.calgary.cbc.ca/ or www.edmonton.cbc.ca/

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