Best of The Banff Mountain Fest

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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