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Don Gillmor’s “sense of the mountains”
“There’s a sense of the mountains that you can’t recreate in your head sitting in urban Toronto.” – Don Gillmor Don Gillmor, participant in Mountain and Wilderness Writing, deep in discussion. Photo:...
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Taking the mountains home
Helen Mort, one of the six participants in the Mountain and Wilderness Writing program, read from her work earlier this month at WildFlour Café. Photo: Kim Williams. About halfway through my three-week...
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Mountain writers: “A natural feel for story”
Mountain and Wilderness Writing program directors Tony Whittome and Marni Jackson. Photo: Meghan Krauss. Marni Jackson and Tony Whittome have led The Banff Centre’s Mountain and Wilderness Writing...
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Adventurer Bruce Kirkby on the genius of Google and Burmese cheese
Adventurer, writer and photographer, Bruce Kirkby, has spent more than two decades exploring the most remote corners of the planet. He was here at the 2013 Banff Mountain Film and Book Festival wearing...
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Jack Tackle: the narrative of climbing
“Climbing and adventure stories lend themselves to good storytelling because they’re about events and places that are out of the ordinary in every way,” says writer and mountaineer Jack Tackle. “If...
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