Banff Centre Mountain Movie and Ebook Competition has introduced their 2024 class winners, which you will discover right here. Within the climbing class, Bernadette McDonald gained for her 2024 guide Alpine Rising: Sherpas, Baltis, and the Triumph of Native Climbers within the Better Ranges, printed by Mountaineers Books.
The grand prize of this yr’s occasion will likely be introduced on the pageant that begins subsequent week. Till then, right here’s a listing of each guide that has gained the grand prize since 1994, listed with the yr, adopted by the writer(s) and the guide title.
1994: Chris Bonington and Audrey Salkeld (editors), Heroic Climbs
1995: Thomas Wharton, Icefields
1996: Stephen Venables, Himalaya Alpine-Model: The Most Difficult Routes on the Highest Peaks
1997: Stefano Ardito [it], Mont Blanc: Discovery and Conquest of the Large of the Alps
1998: Audrey Salkeld, World Mountaineering: The World’s Nice Mountains
1999: Paul Pritchard, The Totem Pole
2000: Bradford Washburn, Bradford Washburn: Mountain Images
2001: Roger Hubank, Hazard’s Manner
2002: W. H. Murray, The Proof of Issues Not Seen: A Mountaineer’s Story
2003: David Roberts, Escape from Lucania: An Epic Story of Survival
2004: Chris Duff, Southern Publicity: A Solo Sea Kayaking Journey Round New Zealand’s South Island
2005: Karsten Heuer, Being Caribou: 5 Months on Foot with a Caribou Herd
2006: Jeff Lengthy, The Wall
2007: James M. Tabor, Without end on the Mountain: The Reality Behind One among Mountaineering’s Most Controversial and Mysterious Disasters
2008: Sid Marty, The Black Grizzly of Whiskey Creek
2009: Jerry Moffatt, Niall Grimes, Jerry Moffatt: Revelations
2010: John Lengthy, The Stonemasters: California Rock Climbers within the Seventies
2011: Bernadette McDonald, Freedom Climbers
2012: Philip Connors, Fireplace Season: Discipline Notes From a Wilderness Lookout
2013: Tim Cope, On the Path of Genghis Khan: An Epic Journey By means of the Land of the Nomads
2014: John Porter, One Day as a Tiger: Alex Macintyre and the Start of Mild and Quick Alpinism
2015: Richard Wagamese, Medication Stroll
2016: Jean McNeil, Ice Diaries: An Antarctic Memoir
2017: Jim Herrington, The Climbers
2018: Paolo Cognetti, The Eight Mountains
2019: Bryce Andrews, The Life and Demise of a Grizzly Bear
2020: Hank Lentfer, Raven’s Witness: The Alaska Lifetime of Richard Okay. Nelson
2021: Suzanne Simard, Discovering the Mom Tree: Uncovering the Knowledge and Intelligence of the Forest
2022: Jonathan Howland, Native Air
2023: Helen Mort, The Line Above the Sky
