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For 11 years Paddy Pallin has been bringing the Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour to Australia. This year there are 23 nights in 10 locations. This week (June 10th – 13th) there are four dates in Melbourne, which means it isn’t quite as crowded as previous years. If you haven’t been before, then go [...]

In 2007,  Andrew McAuley set out on a 1,600 kilometre solo adventure to cross the Tasman Sea by kayak. His journey across infamously treacherous seas was outside of the range of helicopter rescue for all but the first and last 200km. After a month at sea, in which he survived incredible storms, 60 knot winds [...]

When I first started teaching her, I remember telling her, you know, the rules of B.A.S.E. jumping, like, the facts. You jump long enough, you’ll break bones. You’re in the sport long enough, you’re going to watch people die. And then, third, and it’s kind of a pointless thing to talk about, but you’re gonna [...]

It’s springtime and the snow is slurpee. But it’s still better to be in the mountains! //

I watched these movies last night. Awesome as always – the movie highlight of the year! //

We drove halfway to the mountains on Friday night and stayed in a motel. Then, Saturday morning we drove up to Diamantina hut, walked out along the razorback with our boards and skis to play! We found the snowcave that we built three weeks ago to be in perfect condition, if a bit icy. But [...]

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 …. //

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 [...]

We went to see Deep Sea 3D at the IMAX theatre at Melbourne Museum