Banff
I always love going to the Banff mountain film festival. It is a true shmooze and booze fest and a hell of a lot of fun. I managed to catch up with Conrad Anker, Kevin Doyle, Blanchard, and Chic Scott. (name dropping, yes!) Also while in Banff, I ran into James Little, editor of Explore magazine. After both my Everest trips I worked with James in writing two major articles for Explore (Sept/Oct. 06 and July 08). It was great to connect with him and photo editor Gary in person. James also blogged about our meeting on the Explore web-site, and his thoughts on that can be found here: http://explore.outdoorsica.com/blogs/james_little_explore_editor/2009/nov/23/back_to_banff/

Andrew is a Calgary climber and teacher who has been chasing his climbing dreams for over 20 years in many of the most impressive mountain environments in the world, including Tibet, China, Pakistan, Kazakhstan, Alaska, Chile and Nepal.