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Award Winners of the Banff Mountain Book Festival
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| Mountain Exposition |
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| Mountain Literature |
The Mountain Exposition category includes guidebooks and “how-to” books dealing with a physical activity in a mountain area. There are two lists of books on this page. The first list includes all of the winners in the Mountain Exposition category since the award was first made in 1995. The second list includes all of the finalists. Please note that a number of these books are still unavailable in the US (at least through Amazon.com) and that these are shown in red.
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| 2006 |
Burbage, Millstone And Beyond Comments from the jury include:
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| 2005 |
Longs Peak: The Story of Colorado’s Favourite Fourteener Comments from the jury include:
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| 2004 |
Ice & Mixed Climbing: Modern Technique Will Gadd and Roger Chayer A blend of step-by-step instruction and real-life stories, the book is described by jury members as “utterly bang up-to-date, as Gadd’s still at the top of his game”. |
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| 2003 |
The Bugaboos Chris Atkinson and Marc Piché The book is written by Canadian mountain guides Chris Atkinson and Marc Piché. It is a climbers’ guide to the Bugaboos and Vowells, one of the world’s great alpine rock climbing centres. "The job of a climbing guidebook is to inform, invite, and inspire," says jury member Greg Child. "This entry does all of that, in compact form and with clear presentation. Pure and simple, it just makes you want to get off the couch and stuff your fists in a granite crack." |
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| 2002 |
Selkirks South David P. Jones "This is a book that will change how we measure our mountains in Canada, and that’s a remarkable achievement," says Geoff Powter, a 2002 jury member. |
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| 2001 |
Fifty Favorite Climbs: The Ultimate North American Tick List Mark Kroese Maria Coffey, a 2001 jury member, comments, "I like the way we get to know each climber, and learn about their chosen climb through both their personal experience of it and the comprehensive route description." |
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| 2000 |
A Hiker's Guide To The Rocky Mountain Art Of
Lawren Harris Lisa Christenson |
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| 1999 |
Extreme Alpinism:
Climbing Light, Fast, and High Mark Twight and James Martin A master class on extreme alpine climbing by one of the world's most elite mountaineers. Focusing on how top alpine climbers approach the world's most difficult routes, Twight centres his instruction on the ethos of climbing the hardest routes with the least amount of gear and the most speed. "You can either read Twight's book or beat yourself up in the mountains learning the same lessons," says jury member Will Gadd. |
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| 1998 |
Going Higher: Oxygen, Man and Mountains Charles Houston Jury member Bob Sandford says the jury faced a particularly difficult problem choosing between Going Higher and High Altitude Medicine by Dr. Herb Hultgren. "These were two great books on high altitude physiology written by two famous researchers being entered in the same year in the same category," he says. "They are written by renowned world experts, both with decades of experience, both good writers, both citing many of the same sources and both citing each other's work in books that define the limits about what we know about high altitude physiology today". |
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| 1997 |
Advanced Rock Climbing John Long and Graig Leubben |
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| 1996 |
Dawson's Guide To Colorado's Fourteeners: Northern Peaks and
Dawson's Guide to Colorado's Fourteeners: Southern Peaks Louis Dawson |
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| 1995 |
Handbook Of The Canadian Rockies Ben Gadd |
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| 1994 |
Classic Hikes in the Canadian Rockies Graeme Pole |
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The following table includes a list of the finalists for the Banff Awards in the Mountain Exposition category since the award was first established.
If you like this list and want to see other award winning books on mountaineering and the outdoors, check out the winners of these three awards:
| American Alpine Literary Award |
| Boardman-Tasker Memorial Award for Mountain Literature |
| National Outdoor Book Awards |
Return to TheRagens Books homepage. For other books on our lists of recommended books, follow the links below.
| Our Current Book List. The list of books on our current reading list. |
| Mountain Climbing and Outdoor Adventures with the cover graphics. |
| Books on Wine Appreciation and Winemaking. |
| Children's Books that our boys or their cousins are reading. Click here for the Seattle Children's Theatre recommended booklist. |
| History Books that relate to our family history or that we have enjoyed. |
| Other Books that we are waiting to categorize. |
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