Banff Mountain Film Festival

Batstar sponsored of the Best Adventure Travel Book at the Banff Mountain Book Festival, part of the Banff Mountain Festivals. This week of festivals is a celebration of worldwide mountain culture. We highly recommend taking in the Mountain Summit, Mountain Book and Mountain Film festivals which run back-to-back at the end of October each year.

Best Adventure Travel Book

A Man’s Life: Dispatches from Dangerous Places Mark Jenkins Rodale Press (USA, 2007) 978-1594867071 Perhaps no adventure writer has traveled so widely, or with such a combination of passion, insight, and literary grace, as Mark Jenkins. His nearly 10-year run of columns for Outside Magazine (”The Hard Way”) was the definition of excellence in serious writing about serious adventure. The only thing that rivals Jenkins’s enthusiasm for putting himself into harm’s way in exotic places is his love for crafting stories after coming home to his family in Laramie, Wyoming. A Man’s Life is the second and final collection of “The Hard Way” columns, lightly reedited, and ready to take you pretty much everywhere. — John Harlin

Sponsored by Batstar Adventure Tours, Port Alberni, B.C.: $500

In addition to the cash award, Batstar gives each winner a trip for two to The Broken Group Islands or Clayoquot Sound. We've had some wonderful memories with several writers.

To see some of the past winners, visit Batstar's book page on Amazon.