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| Banff Mountain Film and Book Festival
To order tickets online: banffmountainfestival.ca
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 7 FILMS AND SPEAKERS
8 P.M. | MAX BELL AUDITORIUM | $35
Kit Deslauriers and Films Sponsored by The North Face. When American ski mountaineer Kit Deslauriers skied from the summit of Everest in 2006, she became the first person ever to ski from the Seven Summits. This raises many questions: How? Why? Was it legal? Is there even snow on all those mountains? Deslauriers shares the details of how she did it in her new memoir Higher Love – and how she pulled it all off in secret. JOHN LAUCHLAN AWARD 9:12 P.M. (BREAK, 15 MIN)
Kroger’s Canteen (South Africa, 2015, 8 min) WORLD THEATRICAL PREMIERE Director: Greg Fell, Dean Leslie, Hanna Slezacek Producer: Greg Fell In person: Rickey Gates
In 2014, Kilian Jornet won The Hard Rock 100-mile run through the San Juan’s of Colorado. Along the way he stopped at Kroger’s Canteen – an aid station perched on a tiny ledge, 4,000 metres above sea level. This is a story about that aid station, about the people who make it happen, and about the spirit one can only find at The Hard Rock 100.
Photos, top to bottom: Kit Deslauriers © Jimmy Chin; From the film Kroger’s Canteen © TAA; Opposite page: From the film STREIF One Hell of a Ride © Andreas Schaad, Red Bull Content Pool
Dorais (USA, 2015, 12 min) Director: Fitz Cahall Producer: Becca Cahall In Person: Anya Miller*
In the hyperactive Salt Lake City ski community, the Dorais brothers’ unique brand of masochism has made them local legends. While ski-racing and trail running are constant for the brothers, it’s the bonds to family and each other that define them.
Redemption: The James Pearson Story (UK, 2014, 53 min) ALBERTA PREMIERE Director/Producer: Paul Diffley*, Chris Prescott Production Company: Hot Aches Productions
James Pearson is one of the UK’s most famous climbers. When the grading of his routes is questioned, controversy haunts him and Pearson has to face his demons to fight for his place back in the climbing community
LIVE MUSIC! Danny Michel and Jeremy Fisher 11:30 p.m. See page 23