 
The 2nd Annual Banff Mountain Book Festival, the only event of its kind in North
America, has announced the winners of its international book competition.
The competition attracted more than 80 submissions in six categories. Books were
submitted from Canada, England, Germany, Italy, New Zealand and the United States. An
international jury selected the winners from a list of 26
finalists. The six categories in the competition are: Non-Fiction, Mountain
Images, Guide Books, Mountain Environment and Culture, Adventure Travel and Grand Prize.
The winners are:
Non-Fiction
K2: The Story of the Savage Mountain by Jim Curran
Publisher: The Mountaineers Books and Hodder & Staughton,
$1000 Jon Whyte Award, Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies
Mountain Image
The Last Forbidden Kingdom: Mustang, Land of Tibetan Buddhism
by Vanessa Boeye
and Clara Marullo
Publisher: Produced by Concepts Publishing for Thames & Hudson and Charles E. Tuttle
$500 cash award sponsored by Agfa Film and Banff Film Lab
Mountain Environment and Culture
Leaning on the Wind by Sid Marty
Publisher: Harper Collins
$500 cash award sponsored by the American Alpine Club
Leaning on the Wind has been selected as a finalist in non-fiction for the
Governor General's Award of Canada.
Guide Book
Handbook of the Canadian Rockies by Ben Gadd
Publisher: Corax Press
$500 cash award sponsored by Mountain Lights Bookstore, Lake Louise
Adventure Travel
Kayaking the Vermillion Sea by Jon Waterman
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
$500 cash award sponsored by Mountain Travel*Sobek
Grand Prize
Icefields by Thomas Wharton
Publisher: NeWest Press
$1000 cash award sponsored by Cascade Plaza, Banff
A Special Jury Mention was awarded to:
Stone Crusade by John Sherman
Publisher: American Alpine Club
A local jury also awarded the Banff National Park Award to:
Icefields by Thomas Wharton
Publisher: NeWest Press
Award sponsored by Eagle Creek Travel Gear
Jury members for the Banff Mountain Book Festival were: Audrey Salkeld (England), noted
author of mountain literature; Allen Steck (United States), founding editor of Ascent
magazine; Bart Robinson (Canada), author and past editor of Equinox magazine; and Giorgio
Daidola (Italy), Editorial Director of Rivista Della Montagne magazine.
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