The Banff Mountain Book Festival is an annual book festival held at the

Banff Centre Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, formerly known as The Banff Centre (and previously The Banff Centre for Continuing Education), located in Banff, Alberta, was established in 1933 as the Banff School of Drama. It was granted full autonomy as ...

in Banff,

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Grand Prize

* 1994:

Chris Bonington Sir Christian John Storey Bonington, CVO, CBE, DL (born 6 August 1934) is a British mountaineer. His career has included nineteen expeditions to the Himalayas, including four to Mount Everest. Early life and expeditions Bonington's father, ...

and Audrey Saukeld (editors), ''Heroic Climbs'' * 1995: Thomas Wharton, ''Icefields''Canadian Writers: Thomas Wharton
/ref> * 1996: Stephen Venables, ''Himalaya Alpine-Style: The Most Challenging Routes on the Highest Peaks'' * 1997:

Stefano Ardito Stefano is the Italian form of the masculine given name Στέφανος (Stefanos, Stephen). The name is of Greek origin, Στέφανος, meaning a person who made a significant achievement and has been crowned. In Orthodox Christianity the ac ...

, ''Mont Blanc: Discovery and Conquest of the Giant of the Alps'' * 1998: Audrey Salkeld, ''World Mountaineering: The World's Great Mountains'' * 1999: Paul Pritchard, ''The Totem Pole'' * 2000:

Bradford Washburn Henry Bradford Washburn Jr. (June 7, 1910 – January 10, 2007) was an American explorer, mountaineer, photographer, and cartographer. He established the Boston Museum of Science, served as its director from 1939–1980, and from 1985 until his ...

, ''Bradford Washburn: Mountain Photography'' * 2001:

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, ''Hazard's Way'' * 2002: W. H. Murray, ''The Evidence of Things Not Seen: A Mountaineer's Tale'' * 2003:

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, ''Escape from Lucania: An Epic Story of Survival'' * 2004: Chris Duff, ''Southern Exposure: A Solo Sea Kayaking Journey Around New Zealand's South Island'' * 2005: Karsten Heuer, ''Being Caribou: Five Months on Foot with a Caribou Herd'' * 2006: Jeff Long, ''The Wall'' * 2007: James M. Tabor, ''Forever on the Mountain: The Truth Behind One of Mountaineering's Most Controversial and Mysterious Disasters'' * 2008:

Sid Marty Sid Marty (born 1944) is a Canadian writer. Marty has written five non-fiction books and five poetry books, and also is a singer. Many of his books reflect the time he spent as a park warden for Parks Canada between 1966 and 1978 in Yoho, Jaspe ...

, ''The Black Grizzly of Whiskey Creek'' * 2009:

Jerry Moffatt Jerry Moffatt (born 18 March 1963), is a British rock climber and climbing author who is widely considered as being the best British rock climber from the early-1980s to the early-1990s, and was arguably the best rock climber in the world in th ...

, Niall Grimes, ''Jerry Moffatt: Revelations'' * 2010: John Long, ''The Stonemasters: California Rock Climbers in the Seventies'' * 2011: Bernadette McDonald, ''Freedom Climbers'' * 2012: Philip Connors, ''Fire Season: Field Notes From a Wilderness Lookout'' * 2013:

Tim Cope Tim Cope (born 7 December 1978) is an Australian adventurer, author, filmmaker, trekking guide, and public speaker who grew up in Gippsland, Victoria. He has learned to speak fluent Russian and specializes in countries of the former Soviet Union. ...

, ''On the Trail of Genghis Khan: An Epic Journey Through the Land of the Nomads'' * 2014: John Porter, ''One Day as a Tiger: Alex Macintyre and the Birth of Light and Fast Alpinism'' * 2015:

Richard Wagamese Richard Wagamese (October 14, 1955 – March 10, 2017) was an Ojibwe Canadian author and journalist from the Wabaseemoong Independent Nations in Northwestern Ontario."Indian Horse is a dark ride". '' Calgary Herald'', February 28, 2012. He was be ...

, '' Medicine Walk'' * 2016:

Jean McNeil Jean McNeil, born 1968, is a Canadian fiction and travel author. She is a Reader in Creative Writing and co-convenor of the MA in Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) at the University of East Anglia. She grew up on Cape Breton Island in Nova Scoti ...

, ''Ice Diaries: An Antarctic Memoir'' * 2017: Jim Herrington, ''The Climbers'' *2018: Paolo Cognetti, ''The Eight Mountains'' *2019: Bryce Andrews, ''The Life and Death of a Grizzly Bear'' *2020: Hank Lentfer, ''Raven's Witness: The Alaska Life of Richard K. Nelson''

Other prizes

*Best Book — Mountain Literature *Best Book — Mountain Image *Best Book — Adventure Travel *Best Book — Mountaineering History *Special Jury Mention *Canadian Rockies Award

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Banff Mountain Festivals
Literary festivals in Alberta Festivals in Banff, Alberta Canadian literary awards Outdoor literature awards Awards established in 1995 1995 establishments in Alberta Mountaineering festivals Mountaineering in Canada {{lit-festival-stub

Grand Prize

Other prizes

See also

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