29th Dundee Mountain Film Festival
WEDNESDAY, 26 OCTOBER 2011
Submitted By: Mariangela Silvestre
The 29th Dundee Mountain Film Festival will be held on the 25th and 26th of November 2011 at the Bonar Hall, Dundee. The event will be featuring talks by: Mark Beaumont, Ian R Mitchell and Peter Habeler.
The Dundee Mountain Film Festival is the UK’s longest continuous running mountain film festival and showcases an international programme of speakers and award winning films and exhibitions held in the University of Dundee’s Bonar Hall. Mark Beaumont (pictured) presents his extraordinary career on the opening Friday evening, which includes climbing North America’s Denali (Mount McKinley) and South America’s Aconcagua. On Saturday morning, Ian R Mitchell will talk about the life and contribution to mountaineering of Aberdeen born Dr Alexander Kellas, an Everest Pioneer of the early 20th Century. The British University Kayak Expedition to Venezuela is the presentation feature on the afternoon programme. Austria’s Peter Habeler comes to DMFF on Saturday evening. In 1978, Peter Habeler achieved the first ascent of Everest, with Reinhold Messner, without supplementary oxygen. The approaching centenary of Captain Robert Falcon Scott’s final expedition is marked by the return screening on Friday evening of the film ‘Tom Crean – Antarctica’s Forgotten Hero’. On Saturday morning, there is an all Scottish film programme.
World Tour adrenalin bursting films will be screened on Saturday afternoon. Works by artist Fiona Haldane from Dundee and photographer Bob Smith from Arrochar will feature alongside an exhibition by the South Georgia Heritage Trust. There will be book signings by Mark Beaumont and Ian R Mitchell.
Come, see, hear and enjoy fantastic stories of courage, adventure and exploration.
For information on the 29th Dundee Mountain Film Festival, visit www.dundeemountainfilm.org.uk.
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