ADVENTURE films packed with adrenaline-charged sports including climbing, kayaking, skiing and mountain biking, make up the Banff Mountain Film Festival, which returns to the Lighthouse in Poole tomorrow roughly halfway through its UK tour.
The festival was founded in Canada in 1975 to celebrate the great outdoors, particularly in its mountainous form, as well as the exploits of the thrill-seekers and athletes who take on its challenges, and has been held every November in Banff before setting out to tour theatres worldwide.
This year’s tour, which has already attracted sell-out audiences across the country, includes Crossing The Ice, which sees two Australians tackle the journey across Antarctica to the South Pole unassisted, while a group of the world’s best kayakers take on the whitewater rivers of New Zealand in Flow Hunters.
Other films, all of which blend the action with stunning photography and inspirational stories, look at free climbing in Yosemite National Park in the US, and mountain biking in the Swiss Alps and the forests of British Columbia. From Poole the show will move on to London on February 21.
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