Banff Mountain Book Competition Announces 2022 Category Award Winners
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If you’re looking for great books to cozy up with this winter, you’re in luck. The Banff Mountain Book Competition just announced their 2022 category winners. The internationally recognized literary competition selected eight exceptional books out of 166 submissions from authors across 11 countries.
Here are the winners in each of eight categories:
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Mountain Literature
Fox of Glencoe by Hamish MacInnes
Scottish Mountaineering Press
Mountain Fiction and Poetry
Native Air by Jonathan Howland
Green Writers Press
Environmental Literature
Northern Light: Power, Land, and the Memory of Water by Kazim Ali
Milkweed Editions, Goose Lane Editions
Adventure Travel
A Year in the Woods: Twelve Small Journeys into Nature by Torbjørn Ekelund
Greystone Books
Mountain Image
Forest for the Trees: The Tree Planters by Rita Leistner
Dewi Lewis Publishing
Guidebooks
The Packraft Handbook by Luc Mehl and Sarah Glaser
Mountaineers Books
Mountain Article
“The Girl in the Gully” by Astra Lincoln
Climbing Magazine
Climbing Literature
Valley of Giants: Stories from Women at the Heart of Yosemite Climbing by Lauren DeLaunay Miller
Mountaineers Books
Congratulations to all of the winners, and thank you for giving the rest of us a way to daydream about the mountains all winter. Each category winner will go on to compete for the Grand Prize, which will be announced on November 3 at this year’s Banff Centre Mountain Film and Book Festival.
