Summary 1999
2nd Annual Vancouver International
Mountain Film Festival
February 25 - 28, 1999, The Centennial Theatre
North Vancouver

Summary of the Second Birthday Party Celebration

The invited guests of The Second Annual Vancouver International Mountain Film Festival included Poland's Voytek Kurtyka, one of the most influential high-altitude mountaineers and defenders of the light alpine style; legendary John Bachar, a well-known rockclimber, bold and controversial soloist both on rock and saxophone; Tami Knight, Vancouver climbing cartoonist, photographer and freelance writer; Christian Griffith, premier sportclimber and founder of the Verve clothing company; Vancouver's Don Serl, perhaps the most knowledgeable West Coast mountaineer and M.E.C. sleeping bag innovator; and Richard Wheater of White Whale, outdoor photographer and freelance journalist.

Films on mountain culture and mountain sports from around the world included a number of internationally awarded titles, as well as a special Polish Mountain Film Retrospective. One evening dedicated to mountain biking featured slide presentation by travellers Janick Lemieux and Pierre Bouchard, as well as film screenings. Our Youth and Senior Community Programme offered presentations by The North Shore Search and Rescue.

The Edge Climbing Centre in North Vancouver hosted The Goldstar Shoe Repair Spring Open Regional Climbing Competition at its premises with Christian Griffith and Mark Bourdon setting the routes. And if you still think this is not enough, come and join John Bachar at a very special saxophone concert!!

The Festival will be shortly travelling to Seattle for "The Best of the Fest" film screenings as well as slide presentations by Paul Malon (B.C.'s West Coast) and Andy Selters (Mountain Spirit, Human Spirit).

The event was presented by W.L.Gore and Associates, Inc. and Mountain Equipment Co-op. The Major Sponsors include The Edge Climbing Centre, The Kiwanis Club of North Vancouver, Rock and Ice, North Shore News, Bowen Island Brewery, and The Mountaineers.

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