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November 2009 archive
Going for the South Pole
- Posted on November 27, 2009 at 5:15 PM
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A couple of years ago, in our July/August 2007 issue, we reported on Meagan McGrath after she had not only became the youngest Canadian woman to climb the Seven Summits, but also helped in the rescue of an ill climber near the summit of Mt. Everest. Since then Meagan has ...
The rest of the story
Like everyone else, I love the action-packed video sequence that opens the Banff Mountain Film Festival. But this year, I got a bit of a surprise when I saw the final clip because I'd seen it before. Many of you will have also seen the clip (shown here). But you ...
Back to Banff
A couple of posts ago, I wrote about some of my personal highlights from the Banff Mountain Book and Film Festivals. Afterwards, it occurred to me that I forgot to mention an interesting chat I had with Andrew Brash. Andrew is the Canadian who made headlines back in 2006 when ...
The Italian jog
I'm in Italy for a couple of weeks, on a decidedly non-adventurous vacation, using a decidedly non-North American keyboard. (It just took me about two minutes to find the apostrophe key.) But while here, I convinced my long-suffering hiking partner that we should visit the Cinque Terre region and do ...
My best of Banff
Well, I was intending to blog daily while I was at the Banff Mountain Film and Book Festivals, but I just seemed to get too busy. So now that the event has wrapped up for another year, here's a look back at 10 of my favourite festival moments, in chronological ...
Live (sort of) from Banff
I mentioned a couple of posts ago that one of the things I like most about the Banff Mountain Film and Book Festivals is that you get the chance to randomly meet many of Canada's--and the world's—top adventurers. Yesterday morning was a good example. I was eating breakfast at a ...
Attention all ski bum wannabes
Earlier this year, a 34-year-old English fundraiser famously won the international competition for "the best job in the world"--working as an "island caretaker" in Queensland, Australia. Now B.C.'s Sun Peaks Resort is going to give some lucky man or woman what might be called "the best winter job in the ...
