In the run-up to Thanksgiving, a treat for denizens of the Big Apple: for the 5th year, Mountainfilm in Telluride returns to the Film Society of Lincoln Center with a weekend of documentaries about adventure, environment, and culture. But mainly adventure. From wrangling buffalo in...
For much of the past decade, for Mountainfilm's Moving Mountains Symposium, we’ve chosen environmental themes, issues we’ve felt were essential to the global conversation. This year, we’re changing directions and will focus on Afghanistan. [caption id="attachment_46007" align="aligncenter" width="425"] Kabul, Afghanistan ©Aaron-Huey-AFGHAN[/caption] Mountainfilm has not selected a theme directly tied to a...
Editor's note: Mountainfilm in Telluride Festival Director David Holbrooke took a few minutes from his crazy schedule to share what’s happened this week as he prepares for the Big Weekend, May 24-27, 2013. [caption id="attachment_29635" align="alignright" width="300"] Emily Long and David Holbrooke[/caption] This has been a peculiar...
[caption id="attachment_15459" align="alignright" width="300"] Mountainfilm in Telluride's banner flies high over Main Street[/caption] Dedicated to educating, inspiring and motivating audiences about issues that matter, Mountainfilm in Telluride is now accepting film entries for the its 35th annual festival, May 24- May 27, 2013. Submit your film...
The question I ask after every festival is this: What sort of impact did this year's edition of Mountainfilm in Telluride make? Of course the answer is never simple to quantify because intangibles such as inspiration are tough to measure. We do know that many people...
Nearly 72,000 people voted for National Geographic Adventure's People's Choice Adventurer of The Year for 2012. The winners are Sano Babu Sunuwar and Lakpa Tsheri Sherpa, who with second-hand equipment, a tiny budget and no corporate sponsors, climbed Everest, descended with paragliders and paddled to the sea...
While in medical school at Harvard, Geoff Tabin applied for a leave of absence because he wanted to join a climbing expedition for a first ascent up the east face of Mount Everest. An ophthalmologist called him a “moron” and steered him, instead, toward a...
Spooked by the wave of regime change around the world, the Chinese government is cracking down hard on the Tibetan people. Inspired by Time magazine’s 2011 recognition of the power of “The Protestor,” Tibetans — mostly monks — have been fighting back in the most desperate way: by setting themselves...
Traditions Change: Birthrates Drop in Latin America and Asia The Washington Post recently reported on plummeting birth rates in Brazil, a country with traditionally big families.The consistency of this swing across such a large, economically, geographically and politically diverse country was striking to demographers. It reflects...
Does the Ocean Impact Our Brains Neurologically? Editor's note: Inside Mountainfilm in Telluride are blogs posted by Mountainfilm director David Holbrooke and his associate Lise Waring. Short but always sweet, TIO puts them up whenever they appear in our DropBox. Enjoy. Have you ever noticed that catching...
