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Best of The Banff Mountain Fest

Best of The Banff Mountain Fest

Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity

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Goodpods has curated a list of the 10 best Best of The Banff Mountain Fest episodes, ranked by the number of listens and likes each episode have garnered from our listeners. If you are listening to Best of The Banff Mountain Fest for the first time, there's no better place to start than with one of these standout episodes. If you are a fan of the show, vote for your favorite Best of The Banff Mountain Fest episode by adding your comments to the episode page.

Best of The Banff Mountain Fest - Ep 09: Tom Hornbein

Ep 09: Tom Hornbein

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10/20/15 • 55 min

Legendary American mountaineer and influential physician Tom Hornbein recounts his famous first ascent of Everest’s West Face. #bestofthemountainfest
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Best of The Banff Mountain Fest - Ep 29: Zac Robinson on Conrad Kain

Ep 29: Zac Robinson on Conrad Kain

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09/06/16 • 37 min

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
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Best of The Banff Mountain Fest - Ep 28: Hot Topics Nepal

Ep 28: Hot Topics Nepal

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08/24/16 • 54 min

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
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Best of The Banff Mountain Fest - Ep 27: Yvon Chouinard

Ep 27: Yvon Chouinard

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08/10/16 • 32 min

Environmental activist and Patagonia Inc. founder Yvon Chouinard in conversation with author and alpinist Ed Douglas. #bestofthemountainfest
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Best of The Banff Mountain Fest - Ep 26: Broughton Coburn

Ep 26: Broughton Coburn

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07/27/16 • 45 min

Award-winning author Broughton Coburn talks about how the Sherpa ethnic group has been transformed by the mountaineering and trekking trades. #bestofthemountainfest
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Best of The Banff Mountain Fest - Ep 25: Wilderness - On the Razor's Edge

Ep 25: Wilderness - On the Razor's Edge

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06/22/16 • 55 min

A panel discussion on whether or not there is still hope for preserving the world’s wildest landscapes. #bestofthemountainfest
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Best of The Banff Mountain Fest - Ep 24: Lydia Bradey

Ep 24: Lydia Bradey

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06/08/16 • 47 min

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
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Best of The Banff Mountain Fest - Ep 23: JB MacKinnon

Ep 23: JB MacKinnon

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05/25/16 • 45 min

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
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Best of The Banff Mountain Fest - Ep 21: Carol Shaben

Ep 21: Carol Shaben

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04/14/16 • 42 min

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
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Best of The Banff Mountain Fest - Ep 01: Climber, Paraglider, Adventurer Will Gadd
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07/22/15 • 37 min

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
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