Mountain Film Fest is back

The Caltech Alpine Club and the Outland Mountain Shop will once again present the Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour, bringing to campus the best in mountain film. This year’s event will take place Wednesday, March 24, at 7:30 p.m. in Ramo Auditorium.

Films in the 2004 tour will take viewers from their own backyards to the ends of the earth—Nepal, Siberia, China, Italy, Pakistan, and Croatia, among other places—in a wide variety of mountain stories, from sports to culture to environment. Highlights include Front Range Freaks: Biscuit, about a small dog that loves to climb big rocks, and A Man Called Nomad, which examines the dilemma of nomadic herders caught between their traditional lifestyle and a changing world. Wehyakin follows an international crew of paddlers through spectacular white water in Iceland, Norway, and Mexico, and The Other Final narrates a game between the lowest-ranked teams in international soccer, Bhutan and Montserrat, played against a mountainous Bhutanese backdrop on the same day as the World Cup Final.

Produced by the Banff Centre for Mountain Culture, the tour comprises award-winning films from the Banff Mountain Film Festival, held in Banff, Alberta, Canada. Each November, the world’s best films on mountain themes draw international crowds of thousands to Banff. The world tour expands that audience, taking the best of the fest to Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Americas.

Tickets are $10 in advance, $12 at the door, and $5 for students. Contact Caltech Public Events at 1 (888) 2CALTECH, (626) 395-4652, or events@caltech.edu, or the Outland Mountain Shop at (626) 568-8828.
For more information, visit www.banffmountainfestivals.ca.
•