OTHER NEWS
Aviemore Mountain Film Festival
March 3rd 2006
Guest Speaker: Andy Nisbet
Aviemore mountain film festival goes BIG on 3rd march 2006, with a three day extravaganza of high-adrenaline action films, outdoor activities and fun events. Based at the MacDonald Aviemore highland resort, there are over 20 films on offer, covering the full spectrum of adventure sports. In the main arena, you'll be able to see some of the world's best free-style skate and bike action and take part in a variety of activities including rock-climbing, dry-tooling, kayaking and sub-aqua. Also on offer is a DIY film -making competition, pro-celebrity cooking and live music, while a Belgian style street cafe provides refreshment. Other venues include the mountain cafe, Cairngorm Mountain and Glenmore Lodge.
It’s the most radical film festival of the year!
check out the web-site on http://www.amff.co.uk/
Main contact for all enquiries and film submissions is Dave Felce at: dave@sportextrem.com
Fort William Mountain Film Festival
10th-18th February 2006
bigger and better than ever before
The annual Fort William Mountain Film Festival gains momentum! For nine days in February, during the best winter walking and climbing week of the year, there will be entertainment in the west of Scotland’s Outdoor Capiton of the UK by a varied programme of lectures, films, activities and exhibitions.
Catherine Destivelle heads up the festival this year as the main speaker, with Nick Bullock and Andy Kirkpatrick also featuring.
There will be evening lectures presented by Cal Macanninch; Winter Mountaineering workshops run at Nevis Range and The Ice Factor; Indoor rock and ice climbing workshops at The Ice Factor with Dave MacLeod and Andy Kirkpatrick; a film and photo competition; and a week long exhibition of art and photography from local and national artists.
Tickets will be available from mid December. For more information see the website at http://www.mountainfilmfestival.co.uk/
Scottish Mountaineer Author Recognised
At the Annual Dinner of the Outdoor Writers' Guild, held on 5th November 2005, in Lancaster, Anthony Toole was given the Outdoor Writers Guild Award for Excellence in the Feature category for 'Storm and Silence in the Twelve Bens'. Anthony’s article was published in The Scottish Mountaineer in March of 2004.
The Guild was established in 1980 and has over 200 members drawn from outdoor journalism broadcasters, photographers, film makers, editors, publishers and illustrators. The judges for the literary awards in 2005 were Maggie Body, David Craig and Ian McMillan, who are all independent of the Guild.
Munro Society News
2006 Munro Society Public Lecture
Life and Limb by Jamie Andrew
Birnam Institute
7.30 p.m. Saturday 8th April
Tickets £6
Available from Munros outdoor shops Pitlochry and Aberfeldy or by post:
The Munro Society, Tayview, 15 Ardestie Place, Monifieth DD5 4PS
Enclose SAE and make cheques payable to The Munro Society
In January 1999 mountaineers Jamie Andrew and James Fisher were trapped for five nights on the storm bound icy summit of a French mountain. Their rescue, which was one of the most dramatic in the history of the Alps, came only hours too late to save Fisher. Andrew, despite suffering from hypothermia and appalling frostbite, survived. Days later all four hands and feet were amputated.
For many this fate would have meant the end of all hope, but not for Jamie. Since losing is hands and feet he has learned to walk again, taken up skiing, run a marathon, and returned t climb once more in the mountains he loves so much. Indeed Jamie’s presentation will include the short film “Balance of Risk” about his recent rock-climbing in Ardnamurchan and also excerpts from “Kilimajaro” which he summited in 2004.
Jamie Andrew’s best selling book “Life and Limb” was short-listed for the prestigious Boardman-Tasker Prize and was winner at Banff Mountain Book Festival for Mountain Literature in Canada in 2004.
A Celebration of Mountains
The exhibition team at Dundee Mountain Film Festival from left to right: Paul Craven, Neil Barlow, ‘Sir Hugh Munro’, Phyllis Fenton, Ian Evans and Irvine Butterfield. The travelling exhibition of photos, drawings and paintings celebrating mountains brought together by the Munro Society was sponsored by ‘Tower Ridge’ Outdoor Specialists of Perth.
The Scottish Caravan and Outdoor Leisure Show
2-5 February 2006
The SECC Glasgow
Discover the Towsure Accessory Superstore (10% discount), finance, insurance, clubs, magazines and associations; The Country Fair, live outdoor cookery demonstrations, traditional Scottish food from the Farmers’ Market, interactive bird watching with the RSPB, Scottish dancing displays.
Fill in the voucher below and hand in to the box office upon arrival at the show. This entitles the bearer to £2.50 off the on-the-door ticket price of £8 Adult / £7 Senior.