Banff Mountain Film Festival on tour, 2007

Last night we went to the Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour. It was awesome. This is a trailer with bits of the movies we watched :) – There is a boring advertising/sponsors bit in the middle of this but I love the sequences at the end so much ….

Always winter but never Christmas

Early one cold morning… ♥Is it Christmas soon? ♦ No sweetie, it’s your birthday soon. ♥It’s like Narnia. Always winter and never Christmas. ♦ When is midwinter? ♥Twenty-first of December. ♦ No, sweetie, that’s the wrong hemisphere. ♥ O. Twenty first June, then. ♦ Well that’s in two days. Soon it will be spring. ♥But …

Banff Mountain Film Festival On Tour ’06

Last night I went to the Banff Mountain film festival (on tour). The centrepiece was the winning film, ‘Sur le fils des 4000‘, a film documenting the attempt by Patrick Bérhault and Philippe Magnin to climb all 82 summits above 4000 metres in the Alps. But as well as mountaineering there were also movies about …

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Phillip Island (Not) Diving

Went to Phillip Island at the weekend. We were meant to dive the pinnacles with MUUC on Sunday morning, but the sea was rough (bleuugh) and then I couldn’t equalise so only got a few metres down before calling it. Ross did the second dive (while I fished from Newhaven pier). It was a cray-hunting …