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Banff Mountain Book Competition winners revealed

The Banff Centre announced the winners for the Banff Mountain Book Competition today as part of the Banff Mountain Film and Book Festival.

The winner in each other category will receive a $2,000 prize, with the James Monroe Thorington Award winner receiving a $1,000 prize. The authors will be eligible for the competition’s $4,000 grand prize, the Phyllis and Don Munday Award, which will be announced on Nov. 6.

The jury comprises author-athletes Ed Douglas, David Roberts, and Anik See, who specialize in adventure, mountaineering, and mountain culture writing.

The winners are as follows:

Adventure Travel

  • Paul Theroux, Last Train to Zona Verde: My Ultimate African Safari (McClelland & Stewart Canada

Mountain Fiction and Poetry

  • David Stevenson, Letters from Chamonix (Imaginary Mountain Surveyors)

Mountain and Wilderness Literature: Non-Fiction (the Jon Whyte Award)

  • Kevin Van Tighem, The Homeward Wolf (Rocky Mountain Books)

Mountain Image

  • Carsten Peter, Vulkane: Expeditionen zu den galfahrlichsten Kratern der Welt (National Geographic)

Guidebook

  • Yvon Choinard, Craig Matthews, and Mauro Mazzo, Simple Fly Fishing: Techniques for Tenkara and Rod & Reel (Patagonia Books)

Mountaineering History (the James Monroe Thorington Award)

  • John Porter, One Day as a Tiger: Alex MacIntyre and the Birth of Light and Fast Alpinism (Vertebrate Publishing)

Special Jury Mention

  • Arno Kopecky, The Oil Man and the Sea: Navigating the Northern Gateway (Douglas & McIntyre Canada)

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October 31st, 2014

2:24 pm

Category: Awards