Banff 2004 winners
The traditional Banff Mountain Festival, a week-long celebration of mountain films, books and photography held in Banff, came to a close on 7 November.
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| The traditional week-long celebration of mountain films, books and photography held in Banff, came to a close on 7 November. The 29th edition of the famous Mountain Festival, hosted a range of speical guests including, amongst others Alex Huber, George Lowe and Chris Jones and Henry Barber and Carlos Buhler. A film made 35 years ago at a Polish film school took the Grand Prize at this year’s Banff Mountain Film Festival. Odwrót (Retreat) recreates an anonymous climber’s epic solo descent in the wake of a mountaineering accident. Produced in 1967 by director Jerzy Surdel at the Lódz Film School in Poland, and filmed in black and white in the Tatra Mountains, Odwrót follows the climber’s desperate retreat to find help for his injured partner. Southern Exposure by adventurer Chris Duff this year's Banff Mountain Book Festival. It is a gripping tale of the author's sea kayak travels in the South Pacific and Tasman Sea, and along the wild western coast of New Zealand. It beat 137 entries to win the Grand Prize. The Photography Grand prize was awarded to Tim Remick for his remarkable image of Aspen groves in Telluride, Colorado, pictured on the right.
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