Banff Mountain Book Festival
October 31 – November 2
Complete list of entries
We received 113 entries from nine countries, and a dedicated committee had a very tough job to narrow the field down to 27 finalists. The Banff Mountain Book Festival wishes to thank the writers, the photographers, their editors and publishers for entering this year’s competition. The list of finalists can be found here.
Mountain Literature Entries
An Afterclap of Fate: Mallory on Everest, Charles Lind, The Ernest Press (UK, 2006) 0 948153 84 9
And Nobody Woke up Dead: Life and Times of Mabel Barker, Jan Levi, The Ernest Press (UK, 2006) 0 948153 83 0
Between Forest and Sky: A Fire-Tower Journal, Sharon Stratton, Heritage House Publishing (Canada, 2006) 978-1-894974-16-5
Beyond Seven Years in Tibet: My Life Before, During and After, Tim Carruthers, translator, Labyrynth Press (Australia, 2007) 978-1921196003
Brotherhood of the Rope: The Biography of Charles Houston, Bernadette McDonald, The Mountaineers Books (USA, 2007) 978-0-89886942-2
A Cairngorm Chronicle, Alexander Frederick Whyte, Millrace Books (UK, 2007) 978-1902173-238
The Canadian Rockies: Pioneers, Legends and True Tales, Roger Patillo, Trafford Publishing (Canada, 2007)
The Climb of My Life: Scaling Mountains with a Borrowed Heart, Kelly Perkins, The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group (USA, 2007) 978-0742558779
Dead Lucky: Life After Death On Mount Everest, Lincoln Hall, Random House Australia (Australia, 2007) 978-1741664614
Destructive Goal Pursuit: The Mount Everest Disaster, D. Christopher Kayes, Palgrave Macmillan (USA, 2006) 023000332X
Disaster on Mount Slesse: The Story of Western Canada's Worst Air Crash, Ian Macdonald, Betty O'Keefe, Harbour Publishing (Canada, 2006) 978-1-894759-21-2
The Diva and the Rancher: The Story of Norma Piper and George Pocaterra, David Finch, Jennifer Hamblin, Rocky Mountain Books (Canada, 2006) 1 894765 70 2
Doubting Yourself to the Bone, Thomas Trofimuk, Cormorant Books (Canada, 2006) 978-1-896951-86-7
The Eiger Obsession: Facing the Mountain that Killed My Father, John Harlin, Simon & Schuster (USA, 2007) 0-7432-9690-7
Extreme Edge, Heather Kellerhals-Sewart, James Lorimer and Company Ltd. (Canada, 2007) 978-1-55028-966-4
An Eye at the Top of the World: The Terrifying Legacy of the Cold War's Most Daring C.I.A. Operation, Pete Takeda, Thunder's Mouth Press (USA, 2007) 978-1560258452
Eyes of the Forest, Vivian Demuth, Smoky Peace Press (Canada, 2007) 978-0-9685623-5-2
Five Skies, Ron Carlson, Penguin Books of Canada Limited (Canada, 2007) 978 0 670 3850 3
Forever on the Mountain: The Truth Behind One of Mountaineering's Most Controversial and Mysterious Disasters, James M. Tabor, W.W. Norton & Company (USA, 2007) 0 393 06174 4
Forgotten Highways:Wilderness Journeys Down the Historic Trails of the Canadian Rockies, Nicky Brink, Stephen R. Bown, Brindle & Glass Publishing (Canada, 2007) 1-897142-24-2
Guardians of the Peaks: Mountain Rescue in the Canadian Rockies and Columbia Mountains, Kathy Calvert, Dale Portman, Rocky Mountain Books (Canada, 2006) 978-1894765800
High Infatuation: A Climber's Guide to Love and Gravity, Steph Davis, The Mountaineers Books (USA, 2007) 978-1-59485-065-3
Higher Than the Eagle Soars, Stephen Venables, Random House Group Limited UK (UK, 2007) 978-0091795610
Hostile Habitats: Scotland's Mountain Environment, Mark Wrightham, Nick Kempe, Scottish Mountaineering Trust Publications Ltd (UK, 2006) 978-0-907-521938
The Inheritance of Loss, Kiran Desai, Penguin Books of Canada Limited (Canada, 2006) 0 14 305568 2
The Intrepid Explorer: James Hector's Explorations in the Canadian Rockies, Ernie Lakusta, Fifth House Publishers Limited (Canada, 2006) 978-189485-682-9
Khangchendzonga: Sacred Summit, Pema Wangchuk Dorjee, Pema Wangchuk Dorjee (India, 2007)
The Last Car in the Parking Lot, Brad Alan Lewis, Brad Alan Lewis (USA, 2007) 1-888478-04-7
The Last Days of the Incas, Kim MacQuarrie, Simon & Schuster (USA, 2007) 978-074326-0497
Long after Fathers, Roberta Rees, Coteau Books (Canada, 2007) 978-1-55050-358-6
Mount Hood: The Deep Blue Zone Story of the 2006 Climbing Tragedy, Hubert Allen Jr., Hubert Allen and Associates (USA, 2007) 978-0979274046
Mountain Game, Carol Cole O'Dell, Warnock Press (USA, 2007) 978-0-9796489-0-8
Mt. Kamet (7756m) Commemorative Souvenir 2006 (75th year anniversary of first ascent), Priyadarshi Gupta, Mehar Mehta, Editors, The Himalayan Club (India, 2006)
On My Own Two Feet: The Life of a Mountaineer, Norman Hardie, Canterbury University Press (New Zealand, 2006) 978 1-877257-476
The Purcell Suite: Upholding the Wild, K. Linda Kivi, Editor, Maa Press & Wildsight (Canada, 2007) 978-0-9685302-3-0
A Rope of Writers: A Look at Mountaineering Literature in Britain, Graham Wilson, Millrace Books (UK, 2006) 978 1902173 221
Scottish Hill Names - Their Origin and Meaning, Peter Drummond, Scottish Mountaineering Trust Publications Ltd (UK, 2007) 9 780907 521952
Searching for Fannie Quigley: A Wilderness Life in the Shadow of Mount McKinley, Jane Haigh, Swallow Press (Ohio University Press) (USA, 2007) 0-8040-1096-X
Seeing with the Third Eye: Growing up with Angay in Rural Bhutan, T. Sangay Wangchuk, Etho Metho Tours (Bhutan, 2006) 99936 692 0 2
Sharper Edges: Stories beyond High and Wild Places, Andy de Klerk, Sunbird Publishers (South Africa, 2007) 978-1919938-486
Soul of the Heights: 50 Years Going to the Mountains, Ed Cooper, Globe Pequot Press (USA, 2007) 978-0-7627-4527-2
The Tenderness of Wolves, Stef Penney, Penguin Books of Canada Limited (Canada, 2006) 9 780 670 06610 0
Terror at Turtle Mountain, Penny Draper, Coteau Books (Canada, 2006) 978-1-55050-343-2
Together on Top of the World: The Remarkable Story of the First Couple to Climb the Fabled Seven Summits, Phil Ershler, Susan Ershler, Robin Simons, Warner Publications (USA, 2007) 044657905X
Vertical World: Conversations with Today's Masters of Rock, Kathleen Brown, Pete Takeda, Globe Pequot Press (USA, 2007) 978-0-7627-4008-6
Voyageur: Across the Rocky Mountains in a Birchbark Canoe, Robert Twigger, Orion Books (UK, 2006) 0297829815
The Walk, William deBuys, Trinity University Press (USA, 2007) 978-159-534-0276
Warrior Wanderer: The Life and Times of the Legendary Explorer Bill Tilman, David A. Glen, Visual XS, LLC. (USA, 2007) 1-877062-02-5
Where the Silence Rings: A Literary Companion to Mountains, Wayne Grady, Editor, Greystone Books (Canada, 2007) 978-1-55365-243-4
Wildfire in the Wilderness, Chris Czajkowski, Harbour Publishing (Canada, 2006) 978-1-55017-375-8
Woman on the Rocks: The Mountaineering Letters of Ruth Dyar Mendenhall, Valerie Mendenhall Cohen, Spotted Dog Press (USA, 2007) 978-1-893343-15-3
Woven Stories: Andean Textiles and Rituals, Andrea Heckman, University of New Mexico Press (USA, 2006) 0-8263-2934-9
Adventure Travel Entries
Bear Grylls Born Survivor, Bear Grylls, Transworld Publishers (UK, 2006) 978 1905 026289
Beyond the Horizon: The Great Race to Finish the First Human Powered Circumnavigation of the Planet, Colin Angus, Doubleday Canada (Canada, 2007) 978-0-385-66123-2
Caledonia's Last Stand, Nat Edwards, Luath Press Ltd. (UK, 2006) 978-1905222-84-1
Call of the Wild, Guy Grieve, Hodder & Stoughton Publishers (UK, 2007) 978 0340 8982 53
The Handsomest Man in Cuba, Lynette Chiang, Globe Pequot Press (USA, 2007) 978-0-7627-4390-2
Headwinds and Horizons: Australia Bike Challenge, Don Davies, Crew Publishing (Canada, 2006) 978 1736 0 0
The Ice Cave, Lucy Jane Bledsoe, University of Wisconsin Press (USA, 2006) 978 0299218 447
If You Fall, Karen Darke, O Books (UK, 2006) 1 905047 886
In the Sierra Madre, Jeff Biggers, University of Illinois Press (USA, 2006) 0-252-03101-4
Kids Go Wild: Adventure in the Canadian Rockies, Sarah Burke, Sarah Burke (Canada, 2007) 978-009783303-0-9
The Lonely Sea, Yvette Allum, Murdoch Books (Australia, 2007) 978-192120-8966
Michael Rockefeller: New Guinea Photographs, 1961, Kevin Bubriski, Peabody Museum Press, Harvard University (USA, 2006) 978-0-873-65806-5
The Mountains Look on Marrakech: A Trek along the Atlas Mountains, Hamish Brown, Whittles Publishing (UK, 2007)
North Pole - Arctic Challenge, Kari Poppis Suomela, Poppicok (Finland, 2007) 978-951-98376-2-8
On a Hoof and a Prayer, Polly Evans, Transworld Publishers (UK, 2007) 978-0-553816792
Paddling South: Winnipeg to New Orleans by Canoe, Rick Ranson, NeWest Press (Canada, 2007) 1-897126-23-9
Richard Bang's Adventures with Purpose: Dispatches from the Front Lines of Earth, Richard Bangs, Menasha Ridge Press (USA, 2007) 0-89732-735-7
The Road Trip Pilgrim's Guide, Dan Austin, Skipstone (USA, 2007) 978-1-59485-081-3
Shadow of the Silk Road, Colin Thubron, Random House Group Limited UK (UK, 2006) 0701173637
Steller's Island: Adventures of a Pioneer Naturalist in Alaska, Dean Littlepage, The Mountaineers Books (USA, 2006) 1-59485-057-7
Sunshot: Peril and Wonder in the Gran Desierto, Bill Broyles, University of Arizona Press (USA, 2006) 0-8165-2524-2
Walking the Gobi: A 1600-mile Trek across a Desert of Hope and Despair, Helen Thayer, The Mountaineers Books (USA, 2007) 978-1-59485-064-6
Wild Places Wild Hearts: Nomads of the Himalaya, Allen Smutylo, Tom Thomson Memorial Art Gallery (Canada, 2007) 987 0 929021 47 8
Wilderness Dreams, Mike Cawthorne, The In Pinn (UK, 2007) 978-1-903238-90-5
Mountain Image Entries
Banff and Lake Louise: Images of Banff National Park, John Marriott, JEM Photography (Canada, 2007) 978-1-894768-01-6
The Canadian Rockies, Mike Grandmaison, Key Porter Books Ltd. (Canada, 2007) 978-1-55263-836-1
Canmore, Kananaskis and the Canadian Rockies, Pam Doyle, Rocky Mountain Books (Canada, 2007) 978 1 894765 87 9
Columbia Highlands: Exploring Washington's Last Frontier, Craig Romano, The Mountaineers Books (USA, 2007) 978-0-89886-816-6
Drawing from the Mountain: An Illustrated Journey, Lorne Perry, Rocky Mountain Books (Canada, 2006) 1 894765 81 8
Escalante: The Best Kind of Nothing, Chris Noble, Brooke Williams, University of Arizona Press (USA, 2006) 0-8165-2458-0
Glen Boles: My Mountain Album, Glen Boles, Rocky Mountain Books (Canada, 2006) 1 894765 78 8
The Last Wild Wolves: Ghosts of the Great Bear Rainforest, Ian McAllister, Douglas & McIntyre (Canada, 2007) 978-1-55365-242-7
The Magnificent Rockies, George Brybycin, George Brybycin (Canada, 2007) 978-0-919029-41-5
Terra Firma, Claes Grundsten, Hammar Förlag (Sweden, 2006) 91-85786-93-4
Una Aventura Llamada Tepuy, Henry González, Criteria Editorial C.A. (Venezuela, 2006) 980-6818-29-6
Vancouver Wild: A Photographer's Journey through the Southern Coast Mountains, Graham Osborne, Greystone Books (Canada, 2006) 978-1-55365-002-7
Yosemite in the Sixties, Glen Denny, Patagonia, Inc.- Lost Arrow Corporation (USA, 2007) 0-9790649-0-9
Yosemite: Art of an American Icon, Amy Scott, Editor, University of California Press (USA, 2006) 978 0 520 24922 6
Mountain Exposition Entries
Alpine Beauty: Alpine and Subalpine Wildflowers of the Canadian Rockies and the Columbia Mountains, Neil L. Jennings, Rocky Mountain Books (Canada, 2007) 978 1 894765 83 1
Blue Mountains Climbing: 2007 Edition, Simon Carter, Onsight Photography & Publishing (Australia, 2007) 978-0-9757662-4-8
Canadian Rockies Trail Guide, 8th Edition, Brian Patton, Bart Robinson, Summerthought Publishing (Canada, 2007) 978 237 501
Deep Water, Mike Robertson, RockFax (UK, 2007) 978-1-873341-76-6
Desert Summits: A Climbing & Hiking Guide to California & Southern Nevada, Andy Zdon, Spotted Dog Press (USA, 2006) 978-1-893343-12-2
First Aid and Wilderness Medicine, Jim Duff, Peter Gormly, Cicerone Press (UK, 2007) 978-1-85284-500-1
Highland Scrambles North, Iain Thow, Scottish Mountaineering Trust Publications Ltd (UK, 2006) 978-0907-521884
Hiking Canada's Great Divide Trail - Revised and Updated, Dustin Lynx, Rocky Mountain Books (Canada, 2007) 978 1 894765 89 3
Hiking from Here to WOW: North Cascades, Kathy & Craig Copeland, Wilderness Press (USA, 2007) 978-0-8997-444-0
Hiking the Carolina Mountains, Danny Bernstein, Milestone Press (USA, 2007) 987 1 889596 19 8
The Inner Glide: The Tao of Skiing, Snowboarding and Skwalling, Patrick Thias Balmain, Inner Traditions, Bear & Company (USA, 2007) 1-59477-160-X
Kalymnos: Rock Climbing Guide, Aris Theodoropoulos, Acharnes Alpine Club (Greece, 2006) 960-85644-8-4
The Mont Blanc Range: Classic Snow, Ice and Mixed Climbs, Jean-Louis Laroche, Florence Lelong, Menasha Ridge Press/Baton Wicks (USA/UK, 2007) 978-0-89732-651-3
More Scrambles in the Canadian Rockies, Andrew Nugara, Rocky Mountain Books (Canada, 2007) 978 1 894765 86 2
The Needles: A Climber's Guide to the Black Hills Needles, Zach Orenczak, Rachael Lynn, Extreme Angles Publishing (USA, 2006) 978-0-9746532-8-0
Northern Highlands South, Andy Nisbet, Scottish Mountaineering Trust Publications Ltd (UK, 2007) 978-0907 521976
Outdoor Safety and Survival in British Columbia's Backcountry, Michael Nash, Michael Nash (Canada, 2007) 978-0-9783048-0-5
Popular Day Hikes - Kananaskis Country, Gillean Daffern, Rocky Mountain Books (Canada, 2007) 978 1 894765 90 9
Rock Climbing Anchors, Craig Luebben, The Mountaineers Books (USA, 2007) 1-59485-006-2
Rock Climbing, Joshua Tree West, Randy Vogel, Globe Pequot Press (USA, 2006) 0 7627 2965 1
The Self-Coached Climber, Dan Hague, Stackpole Books (USA, 2006) 0811733394
Stanage, Niall Grimes, BMC (UK, 2007) 978-0-903908-0-85
Wildflowers of the Rocky Mountains, George Scotter, Whitecap Books Ltd. (Canada, 2007) 1 55285 848 0