Best of The Banff Mountain Fest

Ep 29: Zac Robinson on Conrad Kain

September 06, 2016 02:24 - 37 minutes - 84.8 MB

Conrad Kain is an iconic mountaineer credited with 69 first ascents in Canada. Historian and climber Zac Robinson speaks about the man and the legend, drawing from the book he helped write, "Conrad Kain: Letters From a Wandering Mountain Guide". #bestofthemountainfest

Ep 28: Hot Topics Nepal

August 24, 2016 18:25 - 54 minutes - 124 MB

Ed Douglas moderates a panel of mountain guides, sherpas and journalists as they talk about their experiences in Nepal after the devastating earthquake of April 2015. #bestofthemountainfest

Ep 27: Yvon Chouinard

August 10, 2016 17:12 - 32 minutes - 74.7 MB

Environmental activist and Patagonia Inc. founder Yvon Chouinard in conversation with author and alpinist Ed Douglas. #bestofthemountainfest

Ep 26: Broughton Coburn

July 27, 2016 18:53 - 45 minutes - 103 MB

Award-winning author Broughton Coburn talks about how the Sherpa ethnic group has been transformed by the mountaineering and trekking trades. #bestofthemountainfest

Ep 25: Wilderness - On the Razor's Edge

June 22, 2016 19:57 - 55 minutes - 128 MB

A panel discussion on whether or not there is still hope for preserving the world’s wildest landscapes. #bestofthemountainfest

Ep 24: Lydia Bradey

June 08, 2016 15:56 - 47 minutes - 109 MB

In this episode, we revisit the 2015 Banff Mountain Film and Book Festival to hear Greg Child and Lydia Bradey talk about the controversy surrounding her 1988 summit of Mt. Everest. The climb made her the first woman to summit Everest without supplemental oxygen — a claim her own teammates denied for years. #bestofthemountainfest

Ep 23: JB MacKinnon

May 25, 2016 19:59 - 45 minutes - 103 MB

100-Mile Diet author JB MacKinnon talks about the ideas behind his book, The Once and Future World, which reveals the natural world of the past and what it tells us about nature today. #bestofthemountainfest

Ep 21: Carol Shaben

April 14, 2016 16:39 - 42 minutes - 97.1 MB

Canadian writer Carol Shaben talks about the incident behind her book, Into the Abyss, which tells the true story of a plane crash in the Alberta wilderness where the survivors included a prisoner and her father Larry Shaben, Canada’s first Muslim Cabinet Minister. #bestofthemountainfest

Ep 20: Alex Honnold on his memoir, Alone on the Wall

April 05, 2016 20:13 - 28 minutes - 65 MB

On this episode writer and climber Greg Child talks with the world-renowned climber Alex Honnold about his memoir, Alone on the Wall. Famous for his daring solo climbs, Alex shares a more personal side in stories about atheism, his father, and learning as you go. #bestofthemountainfest

Ep 19: Wide Boyz

March 11, 2016 19:06 - 55 minutes - 127 MB

A feature interview with the Pete Whittaker and Tom Randall, AKA the daredevil off-width climbers best known as the Wide Boyz. #bestofthemountainfest

Ep 18: Kelly Cordes

March 09, 2016 22:57 - 47 minutes - 109 MB

Writer and climber Kelly Cordes talks about his book, The Tower, which won the Mountain and Wilderness Literature award at the 2015 Banff Mountain Book and Film Festival. #bestofthemountainfest

Ep 17: Charlotte Gill

February 23, 2016 17:41 - 41 minutes - 93.8 MB

Canadian author Charlotte Gill reads from and talks about her award-winning non-fiction book, Eating Dirt: Deep Forest, Big Timber and Life with the Tree-planting Tribe. #bestofthemountainfest

Ep 16: The Next 40 Years

February 08, 2016 18:19 - 42 minutes - 97.8 MB

The sport of climbing has seen amazing advances in 40 years of the Banff Mountain Film and Book Festival. In this episode, Ed Douglas moderates a panel of some seriously good climbers on what they predict for the sport over the next four decades. Panelists discuss trends they’re looking forward to and others they’re glad to have left behind. #bestofthemountainfest

Ep 15: Ian McAllister

January 25, 2016 17:36 - 51 minutes - 117 MB

The conservationist, photographer, and longtime resident of British Columbia's Great Bear Rainforest takes us on a deeply personal journey from the headwaters of the region’s unexplored river valleys down to the hidden depths of the offshore world. #bestofthemountainfest

Ep 14: Tommy Caldwell on The Dawn Wall

January 11, 2016 22:05 - 25 minutes - 58.1 MB

World-famous climber Tommy Caldwell recounts two of the record-breaking climbs he conquered only months apart in 2015: the Dawn Wall and the Fitz Roy Traverse, as well as the media frenzy that ensued. #bestofthemountainfest

Ep 13: Christian Beamish

December 15, 2015 23:09 - 40 minutes - 91.9 MB

American writer and surfer Christian Beamish on his book, Voyage of the Cormorant, an account of Beamish's three-month solo surfing expedition in a boat he built by hand. #bestofthemountainfest

Ep 12: Jimmy Chin, Hazel Findlay, Mark Synnott

December 02, 2015 15:51 - 47 minutes - 109 MB

Top members of the North Face Climbing team talk about their adventures, including exploring Oman’s Musandam Peninsula aboard a 44-foot catamaran. #bestofthemountainfest

Ep 11: Candace Savage

November 13, 2015 22:22 - 31 minutes - 71.7 MB

Award-winning Canadian author Candace Savage embarks on a profound and dramatic journey through the eloquent landscape of southwestern Saskatchewan as depicted in her book, A Geography of Blood: Unearthing Memory from a Prairie Landscape. #bestofthemountainfest

Ep 10: Dervla Murphy

November 03, 2015 17:31 - 59 minutes - 135 MB

The remarkable 80-year-old Irish traveler and author tells stories about her many world adventures on bicycle and foot. #bestofthemountainfest

Ep 09: Tom Hornbein

October 20, 2015 19:55 - 55 minutes - 128 MB

Legendary American mountaineer and influential physician Tom Hornbein recounts his famous first ascent of Everest’s West Face. #bestofthemountainfest

Ep 08: Wade Davis on his best-selling book, Into the Silence

October 07, 2015 23:26 - 55 minutes - 127 MB

Famed explorer and adventurer Wade Davis discusses the story behind his best-selling book Into the Silence: The Great War, Mallory, and the Conquest of Everest, a meticulous, 12-year labour of love which blends history and adventure in the story of the British race to climb Mount Everest. #bestofthemountainfest

Ep 07: Justin Jones & Aleksander Gamme

September 23, 2015 15:51 - 55 minutes - 127 MB

Adventurers Justin Jones and Aleksander Gamme recount the events behind their competitive quests to become the first people to ski unassisted from the Antarctic coast to the South Pole and back. #bestofthemountainfest

Ep 06: David Suzuki & Dasho Kinley Dorji

September 02, 2015 22:37 - 55 minutes - 127 MB

Canadian conservationist, writer, and broadcaster David Suzuki takes the stage with Dasho Kinley Dorji, journalist and Secretary of Information and Communications for the mountain kingdom of Bhutan. Their subject? Gross National Happiness, and how the concept might benefit the world at large. #bestofthemountainfest

Ep 05: Raphael Slawinski

August 19, 2015 16:35 - 21 minutes - 48.8 MB

Renowned Canadian alpinist Raphael Slawinski is interviewed by noted American climber, Jack Tackle, about his accomplishments in the climbing world and his first ascent of K6 West. #bestofthemountainfest

Ep 04: Ian Brown

August 12, 2015 22:34 - 55 minutes - 127 MB

Canadian journalist and author Ian Brown talks about his love of the mountains and their place in our consciousness. #bestofthemountainfest

Ep 03: Climber and Writer Nick Bullock

August 06, 2015 15:15 - 42 minutes - 97.1 MB

Former prison guard Nick Bullock on how climbing changed his life and about the writing of his book, Echoes: One Climber’s Hard Road to Freedom. #bestofthemountainfest

Ep 02: Photographer and Filmmaker John Weller

July 29, 2015 21:49 - 51 minutes - 117 MB

Photographer and filmmaker John Weller talks about his experiences working in one of the most pristine and fragile ecosystems on the planet -- Antarctica’s Ross Sea. #bestofthemountainfest

Ep 01: Climber, Paraglider, Adventurer Will Gadd

July 22, 2015 19:42 - 37 minutes - 85.3 MB

Will Gadd, celebrated adventurer and 2014 National Geographic Adventurer of the Year is interviewed by American alpinist Steve Swenson at the 2014 Banff Mountain Film and Book Festival. #bestofthemountainfest

Preview Best Of The Banff Mountain Fest - The Podcast

May 04, 2015 15:26 - 2 minutes - 4.9 MB

Best of the Banff Mountain Fest presents highlights from the world famous Banff Mountain Film and Book Festival. On this podcast, you'll hear talks, readings, in-depth interviews and other presentations from the climbers, writers, photographers, filmmakers, adventurers and others who make the pilgrimage to this unique annual event. #bestofthemountainfest