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25 Dec Mountainfilm: Wade Davis is Guest Director for 2024 (+ Passes on Sale)!
Based in Telluride, Mountainfilm recently announced the Guest Director Wade Davis for the 2024 gathering of the tribe. Wade Davis is a man for all seasons: cultural anthropologist and ethno-botanist, poet and scientist, filmmaker and licensed river guide. Over the years at Mountainfilm, Wade achieved rock-star...
20 Aug Anthropologist Wade Davis on “The Unraveling of America”
Published in 1922, Oswald Spengler’s “The Decline of the West” thoroughly probed the origin and “fate” of our civilization, dubbing the eccentric author a 20th-century Cassandra. “In this engrossing and highly controversial philosophy of history, Spengler… argues that a culture blossoms from the soil of...
21 May Wade Davis at Mountainfilm 2014
Mountainfilm in Telluride proved to be a game-changer for Wade Davis, who joined the tribe in the mid-1990s. Now, on his more or less annual visits to town over Memorial Weekend, the man enjoys the status of a rock star, packing venues with his “groupies.”...
20 Dec Wade Davis, Sacred Headwaters, a Victory – For Now
The Stikine Valley in British Columbia is sacred to the First Nations people, the Tahltan. The region encompasses one of the largest predator-prey ecosystems in North America. Rich in wildlife – caribou, stone sheep, moose, mountain goats, grizzlies and wolves – and mountain majesty, the...
11 Dec WADE DAVIS ON “INTO THE SILENCE”
In Telluride, Wade Davis is a rock star. The man regularly plays to packed venues filled with his “groupies” – I admit to being in the fold – every time he returns to Mountainfilm, generally annually. Wade is an Explorer-in-Residence at the National Geographic Society...