Best of The Banff Mountain Fest

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Best of the Banff Mountain Fest presents highlights from the world famous Banff Mountain Film and Book Festival. On this podcast, youll hear talks, readings, in-depth interviews and other presentations from the climbers, writers, photographers, filmmakers, adventurers and others who make the pilgrimage to this unique annual event.

Episodes

  • Ep 29: Zac Robinson on Conrad Kain

    06/09/2016 Duration: 37min

    Conrad Kain is an iconic mountaineer credited with 69 first ascents in Canada. Historian and climber Zac Robinson speaks about the man and the legend, drawing from the book he helped write, "Conrad Kain: Letters From a Wandering Mountain Guide". #bestofthemountainfest

  • Ep 28: Hot Topics Nepal

    24/08/2016 Duration: 54min

    Ed Douglas moderates a panel of mountain guides, sherpas and journalists as they talk about their experiences in Nepal after the devastating earthquake of April 2015. #bestofthemountainfest

  • Ep 27: Yvon Chouinard

    10/08/2016 Duration: 32min

    Environmental activist and Patagonia Inc. founder Yvon Chouinard in conversation with author and alpinist Ed Douglas. #bestofthemountainfest

  • Ep 26: Broughton Coburn

    27/07/2016 Duration: 45min

    Award-winning author Broughton Coburn talks about how the Sherpa ethnic group has been transformed by the mountaineering and trekking trades. #bestofthemountainfest

  • Ep 25: Wilderness - On the Razor's Edge

    22/06/2016 Duration: 55min

    A panel discussion on whether or not there is still hope for preserving the world’s wildest landscapes. #bestofthemountainfest

  • Ep 24: Lydia Bradey

    08/06/2016 Duration: 47min

    In this episode, we revisit the 2015 Banff Mountain Film and Book Festival to hear Greg Child and Lydia Bradey talk about the controversy surrounding her 1988 summit of Mt. Everest. The climb made her the first woman to summit Everest without supplemental oxygen — a claim her own teammates denied for years. #bestofthemountainfest

  • Ep 23: JB MacKinnon

    25/05/2016 Duration: 45min

    100-Mile Diet author JB MacKinnon talks about the ideas behind his book, The Once and Future World, which reveals the natural world of the past and what it tells us about nature today. #bestofthemountainfest

  • Ep 21: Carol Shaben

    14/04/2016 Duration: 42min

    Canadian writer Carol Shaben talks about the incident behind her book, Into the Abyss, which tells the true story of a plane crash in the Alberta wilderness where the survivors included a prisoner and her father Larry Shaben, Canada’s first Muslim Cabinet Minister. #bestofthemountainfest

  • Ep 20: Alex Honnold on his memoir, Alone on the Wall

    05/04/2016 Duration: 28min

    On this episode writer and climber Greg Child talks with the world-renowned climber Alex Honnold about his memoir, Alone on the Wall. Famous for his daring solo climbs, Alex shares a more personal side in stories about atheism, his father, and learning as you go. #bestofthemountainfest

  • Ep 19: Wide Boyz

    11/03/2016 Duration: 55min

    A feature interview with the Pete Whittaker and Tom Randall, AKA the daredevil off-width climbers best known as the Wide Boyz. #bestofthemountainfest

  • Ep 18: Kelly Cordes

    09/03/2016 Duration: 47min

    Writer and climber Kelly Cordes talks about his book, The Tower, which won the Mountain and Wilderness Literature award at the 2015 Banff Mountain Book and Film Festival. #bestofthemountainfest

  • Ep 17: Charlotte Gill

    23/02/2016 Duration: 41min

    Canadian author Charlotte Gill reads from and talks about her award-winning non-fiction book, Eating Dirt: Deep Forest, Big Timber and Life with the Tree-planting Tribe. #bestofthemountainfest

  • Ep 16: The Next 40 Years

    08/02/2016 Duration: 42min

    The sport of climbing has seen amazing advances in 40 years of the Banff Mountain Film and Book Festival. In this episode, Ed Douglas moderates a panel of some seriously good climbers on what they predict for the sport over the next four decades. Panelists discuss trends they’re looking forward to and others they’re glad to have left behind. #bestofthemountainfest

  • Ep 15: Ian McAllister

    25/01/2016 Duration: 51min

    The conservationist, photographer, and longtime resident of British Columbia's Great Bear Rainforest takes us on a deeply personal journey from the headwaters of the region’s unexplored river valleys down to the hidden depths of the offshore world. #bestofthemountainfest

  • Ep 14: Tommy Caldwell on The Dawn Wall

    11/01/2016 Duration: 25min

    World-famous climber Tommy Caldwell recounts two of the record-breaking climbs he conquered only months apart in 2015: the Dawn Wall and the Fitz Roy Traverse, as well as the media frenzy that ensued. #bestofthemountainfest

  • Ep 13: Christian Beamish

    15/12/2015 Duration: 40min

    American writer and surfer Christian Beamish on his book, Voyage of the Cormorant, an account of Beamish's three-month solo surfing expedition in a boat he built by hand. #bestofthemountainfest

  • Ep 12: Jimmy Chin, Hazel Findlay, Mark Synnott

    02/12/2015 Duration: 47min

    Top members of the North Face Climbing team talk about their adventures, including exploring Oman’s Musandam Peninsula aboard a 44-foot catamaran. #bestofthemountainfest

  • Ep 11: Candace Savage

    13/11/2015 Duration: 31min

    Award-winning Canadian author Candace Savage embarks on a profound and dramatic journey through the eloquent landscape of southwestern Saskatchewan as depicted in her book, A Geography of Blood: Unearthing Memory from a Prairie Landscape. #bestofthemountainfest

  • Ep 10: Dervla Murphy

    03/11/2015 Duration: 59min

    The remarkable 80-year-old Irish traveler and author tells stories about her many world adventures on bicycle and foot. #bestofthemountainfest

  • Ep 09: Tom Hornbein

    20/10/2015 Duration: 55min

    Legendary American mountaineer and influential physician Tom Hornbein recounts his famous first ascent of Everest’s West Face. #bestofthemountainfest

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