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The
2002 Banff Mountain Summit was a great success. Speakers included award-winning author
Gretel Ehrlich,
mountaineer, author and parliamentarian
Reinhold Messner,
author, alpinist, scientist and philosopher
Bernard Amy, author and ethnobotanist
Wade Davis, specialist on sacred
mountains Edwin Bernbaum, cultural photographer
Chris
Rainier, climber
and founder of Patagonia
Yvon Chouinard,
respected Nakoda Elder, traditional
storyteller, poet, and author
Chief John Snow Sr., adventurer
Will Gadd,
mountain writer Rick Ridgeway, leading authority on
international peace parks
Jim Thorsell and many others.
Featured performances
included:
Julia Taffe's
Vertical
Dance, world-champion hoop dancer
Alex
Wells, and poet and singer
Sid Marty.
On display throughout the week are
exhibitions by mountain photographer
Bradford Washburn,
British multi-media artist Andy Parkin, and cultural
photographer Chris Rainier.
Summit Book: Extreme
Landscape: The Lure of Mountain Spaces – is a collection of
essays on mountain themes by festival guests and others. Edited by
Bernadette McDonald and published by National Geographic Adventure
Press, this beautiful collectors' edition paperback will be a
treasured keepsake of International Year of Mountains.
More on
the book.
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