The Banff Centre Mountain Film and Book Festival will be taking place at the end of October in Banff National Park. The category shortlist for the book festival portion of the event was just released.
“We are pleased to announce the long list of category finalists alphabetically by title in each award category,” a press release from the Banff festival said. There were dozens of books submitted to this year’s festival. The jury this year includes Marni Jackson, Gloria Dickie and Anthony Whittome.
With only six places available for finalists in the Mountain Literature category, we thought we’d share a few other books that could just have easily made the list: Survival Not Assured by Geoff Powter; Avalanche Dreams – A Memoir of Skiing, Climbing, and Life by Lou Dawson; Behind Everest: Ruth Mallory’s Story by Kate Nicholson; and Dreams of Lost Buttresses by Heather Dawson.
For tickets to the Banff Centre Mountain Film and Book Festival visit here. There will be several well-known climbers at this year’s fest, including Dawa Yangzum Sherpa, Bronwyn Hodgins, Beth Rodden, Barry Blanchard and more. It’s always one of the best climbing events of the year.
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 Local Climbers in the Greater Ranges
Bernadette McDonald, Mountaineers Books (USA, 2024)
The Darkest White
Eric Blehm, HarperCollins USA (USA, 2024)
A Fine Line: Searching for Balance Among 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 Light through the Cracks: A Climber’s Story
Beth Rodden, Little A (USA, 2024)
Tobin, the Stonemasters, and Me 1970-1980; Remembering Tobin Sorenson, the Best Climber in the World
Rick Accomazzo, Stonemaster Books (USA, 2024)
Mountain Fiction & Poetry
$3000 – Sponsored by the Town of Banff
Dreams of Lost Buttresses and Other Stories
Heather Dawe, Little Peak Press (UK, 2023)
Empty Spaces
Jordan Abel, McClelland & Stewart (Canada, 2023)
Kink Bands
David Martin, NeWest Press (Canada, 2023)
Environmental Literature
$3000 – Sponsored by Lolë
Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet
Ben Goldfarb, W.W. Norton & Company (USA, 2023)
Echo Loba, Loba Echo: Of Wisdom, Wolves and Women
Sonja Swift, Rocky Mountain Books (Canada, 2023)
Pitfall: The Race to Mine the World’s Most Vulnerable Places
Christopher Pollon, Greystone Books (Canada, 2023)
Twelve Trees: The Deep Roots of Our Future
Daniel Lewis, Avid Reader Press (USA, 2024)
The Wild Horses of the Chilcotin: Their History and Future
Wayne McCrory, Harbour Publishing (Canada, 2023)
Adventure Travel
$3000 – Sponsored by Rocky Mountain Books
Blood Sweat Tears
Christine Reed, Rugged Outdoorswoman Publishing (USA, 2024)
Move Like Water: My Story of the Sea
Hannah Stowe, Tin House Books (USA, 2023)
The Two-Headed Whale: Life, Loss, and the Tangled Legacy of Whaling in the Antarctic
Sandy Winterbottom, Greystone Books (Canada, 2023)
Where the Falcon Flies: A 3,400 Kilometre Odyssey From My Doorstep to the Arctic
Adam Shoalts, Allen Lane Canada (Canada, 2023)
Mountain Image
$3000 – Sponsored by Mountain Life
The Art of Climbing
Simon Carter, Thames & Hudson (USA, 2024)
El Arte En El Croquis De Escalada/Art 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)
Speaking Stones: Rock Art of Ladakh
Ahtushi Deshpande, Ahtushi Deshpande (India, 2022)
Guidebooks
$3000 – Sponsored by the Association of Canadian Mountain Guides
The 4000m Peaks of the Alps – Selected Alpine Climbs & Ski Mountaineering Routes – Volume 1: West
Ben Tibbetts, Alpenglow Editions (France, 2024)
Backpacking on Vancouver Island: The Essential Guide to the Best Multi-Day Trips and Day Hikes
Taryn Eyton, Greystone Books (Canada, 2024)
The Cairngorms & North-East Scotland
Iain Young, Anne Butler & Heather Morning, Scottish Mountaineering Club (UK, 2024)
High Sierra Climbing: Technical Rock and Ice Volume 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 Club Culture, Climbing and Books
Zac Robinson, Canadian Alpine Journal (Canada, 2024)
The Terror of Turning a Corner
Astra Lincoln, Climbing Magazine (USA, 2024)
Via Sedna: A Team of Women Sail Stormy Seas to Climb A Big Wall in Greenland
Caro North, Alpinist Magazine (USA, 2024)
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