Banff Mountain Book Festival
October 31 – November 2
2007 Book Finalists
The Banff Mountain Book Festival wishes to thank the writers, the photographers, their editors and publishers for entering this year’s competition. We received 113 entries from nine countries, and a dedicated committee had a very tough job to narrow the field down to 27 finalists. A complete list of entrants can be found here.
Winners of the following awards were announced at the book festival during the evening presentation on Thursday, November 1:
Grand Prize
Phyllis and Don Munday Award, sponsored by the Alberta Sections of The Alpine Club of Canada: $2000. Awarded to Forever on the Mountain: The Truth Behind One of Mountaineering’s Most Controversial and Mysterious Disasters by James M. Tabor
Best Book – Mountain Literature
Jon Whyte Award for Mountain Literature, sponsored by The Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies, Banff: $1000. Awarded to Higher Than the Eagle Soars by Stephen Venables
Best Book – Mountain Image
sponsored by Rocky Mountain Books, Calgary, and the Banff Book and Art Den: $500. Awarded to Yosemite in the Sixties by Glen Denny
Best Book – Mountain Exposition
sponsored by Yamnuska Mountain Adventures: $500. Awarded to Deep Water by Mike Robertson
Best Book – Adventure Travel
sponsored by Batstar Adventure Tours, Port Alberni, B.C.: $500. Awarded to Wild Places Wild Hearts: Nomads of the Himalaya by Allen Smutylo
Best Book – Mountaineering History
James Monroe Thorington Award for the Best Work of Mountaineering History, sponsored by UIAA: $500. Awarded to The Eiger Obsession: Facing the Mountain that Killed My Father by John Harlin III
Canadian Rockies Award
sponsored by Deuter and selected by a local committee. Awarded to Glen Boles: My Mountain Album by Glen Boles
Special Jury Mention
Awarded to Dead Lucky: Life After Death On Mount Everest by Lincoln Hall
Mountain Literature Finalists
An Afterclap of Fate: Mallory on Everest, Charles Lind, The Ernest Press (UK, 2006), 0 948153 84 9
Brotherhood of the Rope: The Biography of Charles Houston,
Bernadette McDonald, The Mountaineers Books (USA, 2007), 978-0-89886942-2
Dead Lucky: Life After Death On Mount Everest,
Lincoln Hall, Random House Australia (Australia, 2007), 978-1741664614
The Eiger Obsession: Facing the Mountain that Killed My Father,
John Harlin, Simon & Schuster (USA, 2007), 0-7432-9690-7
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
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
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
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
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
Adventure Travel Finalists
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
The Mountains Look on Marrakech: A Trek along the Atlas Mountains
Hamish Brown, Whittles Publishing (UK, 2007)
Shadow of the Silk Road
Colin Thubron, Random House Group Limited UK (UK, 2006), 0701173637
Wild Places Wild Hearts: Nomads of the Himalaya
Allen Smutylo, Tom Thomson Memorial Art Gallery (Canada, 2007), 987 0 929021 47
Wilderness Dreams
Mike Cawthorne, The In Pinn (UK, 2007), 978-1-903238-90-5
Mountain Image Finalists
Columbia Highlands: Exploring Washington's Last Frontier
Craig Romano, The Mountaineers Books (USA, 2007), 978-0-89886-816-6
The Last Wild Wolves: Ghosts of the Great Bear Rainforest,
Ian McAllister, Douglas & McIntyre (Canada, 2007), 978-1-55365-242-7
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
Mountain Exposition Finalists
Blue Mountains Climbing: 2007 Edition
Simon Carter, Onsight Photography & Publishing (Australia, 2007), 978-0-9757662-4-8
Deep Water
Mike Robertson, RockFax (UK, 2007), 978-1-873341-76-6
Hiking from Here to WOW: North Cascades
Kathy & Craig Copeland, Wilderness Press (USA, 2007), 978-0-8997-444-0
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
Rock Climbing Anchors
Craig Luebben, The Mountaineers Books (USA, 2007), 1-59485-006-2
The Self-Coached Climber
Dan Hague, Stackpole Books (USA, 2006), 0811733394
Stanage
Niall Grimes, BMC (UK, 2007), 978-0-903908-0-85
Short-Listed for The Canadian Rockies Award
This award will be decided by a local committee
Forgotten Highways:Wilderness Journeys Down the Historic Trails of the Canadian Rockies,
Nicky Brink, Stephen Bown, Brindle & Glass Publishing (Canada, 2007), 1-897142-24-2
Glen Boles: My Mountain Album
Glen Boles, Rocky Mountain Books (Canada, 2006), 1 894765 78 8
Guardians of the Peaks: Mountain Rescue in the Canadian Rockies and Columbia Mountains
Kathy Calvert, Dale Portman, Rocky Mountain Books (Canada, 2006), 978-1894765800
The Intrepid Explorer: James Hector's Explorations in the Canadian Rockies
Ernie Lakusta, Fifth House Publishers Limited (Canada, 2006), 978-189485-682-9