Banff Mountain Book Festival 2006
Friday, November 3, 1:30 – 2:40 p.m.
Max Bell Auditorium
Voices of Adventure: Geoff Powter interviews Audrey Salkeld
Climber, writer, and psychologist Geoff Powter has edited the Canadian Alpine Journal for the last 13 years, and he was president of the Canadian Himalayan Foundation for seven years. He has hosted the Voices of Adventure interviews since 1998.
This year’s Voices of Adventure interview, the ninth in the series, will feature Audrey Salkeld.
Holder of Britain’s most comprehensive private archive on mountaineering and exploration, Audrey Salkeld is a leading British journalist, author, and historian who is extensively involved in mountain writing and research. Her recent books include Climbing Everest: Tales of Triumph and Tragedy on the World’s Highest Mountain (National Geographic Children’s Books, 2003), Kilimanjaro: To the Roof of Africa (National Geographic Society, 2002), and Mystery on Everest: A Photobiography of George Mallory (National Geographic Children’s Books, 2000).
As well, Salkeld is the co-author of Last Climb: The Legendary Everest Expeditions of George Mallory (National Geographic, 1999) with David Breashears. Together with Tom Holzel, she wrote the controversial The Mystery of Mallory and Irvine (The Mountaineers Books, 2000). She is the author of the highly acclaimed book on her Himalayan travels in Mustang and Tibet, People in High Places: Mustang, Everest and Other Approaches to Tibet (Jonathan Cape, 1991). She has also edited a number of publications, including World Mountaineering: The World’s Great Mountains by the World’s Great Mountaineers (Mitchell Beazley, 1998), with Sir Christian Bonington, which won the Grand Prize at the 1998 Banff Mountain Book Festival.
A historical consultant for several television programs, including the 2003 BBC production Everest: Getting to the Bottom of the Mountain, Salkeld has also written scripts for documentary films, and has translated works by Reinhold Messner and Kurt Diemberger.