The Banff Centre Mountain Movie and E book Pageant might be happening on the finish of October in Banff Nationwide Park. The class shortlist for the ebook pageant portion of the occasion was simply launched.
“We’re happy to announce the lengthy listing of class finalists alphabetically by title in every award class,” a press launch from the Banff pageant mentioned. There have been dozens of books submitted to this 12 months’s pageant. The jury this 12 months contains Marni Jackson, Gloria Dickie and Anthony Whittome.
With solely six locations obtainable for finalists within the Mountain Literature class, we thought we’d share a number of different books that would simply have simply made the listing: Survival Not Assured by Geoff Powter; Avalanche Goals – A Memoir of Snowboarding, Climbing, and Life by Lou Dawson; Behind Everest: Ruth Mallory’s Story by Kate Nicholson; and Goals of Misplaced Buttresses by Heather Dawson.
For tickets to the Banff Centre Mountain Movie and E book Pageant go to right here. There might be a number of well-known climbers at this 12 months’s fest, together with Dawa Yangzum Sherpa, Bronwyn Hodgins, Beth Rodden, Barry Blanchard and extra. It’s at all times among the best climbing occasions of the 12 months.
Mountain Literature (non-fiction) – The Jon Whyte Award
$3000 – Sponsored by The Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies
Alpine Rising: Sherpas, Baltis, and the Triumph of Native Climbers within the Larger Ranges
Bernadette McDonald, Mountaineers Books (USA, 2024)
The Darkest White
Eric Blehm, HarperCollins USA (USA, 2024)
A Advantageous Line: Trying to find Steadiness Amongst Mountains
Graham Zimmerman, Mountaineers Books (USA, 2023)
Headstrap: Legends and Lore from the Climbing Sherpas of Darjeeling
Nandini Purandare and Deepa Balsavar, Mountaineers Books (USA, 2024)
A Gentle via the Cracks: A Climber’s Story
Beth Rodden, Little A (USA, 2024)
Tobin, the Stonemasters, and Me 1970-1980; Remembering Tobin Sorenson, the Greatest Climber within the World
Rick Accomazzo, Stonemaster Books (USA, 2024)
Mountain Fiction & Poetry
$3000 – Sponsored by the City of Banff
Goals of Misplaced Buttresses and Different Tales
Heather Dawe, Little Peak Press (UK, 2023)
Empty Areas
Jordan Abel, McClelland & Stewart (Canada, 2023)
Kink Bands
David Martin, NeWest Press (Canada, 2023)
Environmental Literature
$3000 – Sponsored by Lolë
Crossings: How Street Ecology Is Shaping the Way forward for Our Planet
Ben Goldfarb, W.W. Norton & Firm (USA, 2023)
Echo Loba, Loba Echo: Of Knowledge, Wolves and Ladies
Sonja Swift, Rocky Mountain Books (Canada, 2023)
Pitfall: The Race to Mine the World’s Most Susceptible Locations
Christopher Pollon, Greystone Books (Canada, 2023)
Twelve Bushes: The Deep Roots of Our Future
Daniel Lewis, Avid Reader Press (USA, 2024)
The Wild Horses of the Chilcotin: Their Historical past and Future
Wayne McCrory, Harbour Publishing (Canada, 2023)
Journey Journey
$3000 – Sponsored by Rocky Mountain Books
Blood Sweat Tears
Christine Reed, Rugged Outdoorswoman Publishing (USA, 2024)
Transfer Like Water: My Story of the Sea
Hannah Stowe, Tin Home Books (USA, 2023)
The Two-Headed Whale: Life, Loss, and the Tangled Legacy of Whaling within the Antarctic
Sandy Winterbottom, Greystone Books (Canada, 2023)
The place the Falcon Flies: A 3,400 Kilometre Odyssey From My Doorstep to the Arctic
Adam Shoalts, Allen Lane Canada (Canada, 2023)
Mountain Picture
$3000 – Sponsored by Mountain Life
The Artwork of Climbing
Simon Carter, Thames & Hudson (USA, 2024)
El Arte En El Croquis De Escalada/Artwork in Climbing Topos
Eli Azurmendi, Rafa Elorza and Juancar Sanz, Expocroquis (Spain, 2023)
Monica Dalmasso: Sauvage!
Monica Dalmasso and Cédric Sapin-Defour, Glénat (France, 2023)
Talking Stones: Rock Artwork of Ladakh
Ahtushi Deshpande, Ahtushi Deshpande (India, 2022)
Guidebooks
$3000 – Sponsored by the Affiliation of Canadian Mountain Guides
The 4000m Peaks of the Alps – Chosen Alpine Climbs & Ski Mountaineering Routes – Quantity 1: West
Ben Tibbetts, Alpenglow Editions (France, 2024)
Backpacking on Vancouver Island: The Important Information to the Greatest Multi-Day Journeys and Day Hikes
Taryn Eyton, Greystone Books (Canada, 2024)
The Cairngorms & North-East Scotland
Iain Younger, Anne Butler & Heather Morning, Scottish Mountaineering Membership (UK, 2024)
Excessive Sierra Climbing: Technical Rock and Ice Quantity 3
Roger Putnam and Vitaliy Musiyenko, Kevin Daniels & Associates (USA, 2024)
Mountain Article
$3000 – Sponsored by Rab
Cayesh ’83
Jeff Jackson, Summit Journal (USA, 2024)
Columns and Contradictions
Christopher Kalman, Summit Journal (USA, 2024)
Inseparably Roped: Early Membership Tradition, Climbing and Books
Zac Robinson, Canadian Alpine Journal (Canada, 2024)
The Terror of Turning a Nook
Astra Lincoln, Climbing Journal (USA, 2024)
By way of Sedna: A Crew of Ladies Sail Stormy Seas to Climb A Huge Wall in Greenland
Caro North, Alpinist Journal (USA, 2024)
