Stephanie's Update: June 2010

Mountainfilm Festival highlights in Telluride, Colorado!

We started things off at Mountainfilm with the Filmmakers Dinner up at Skyline Ranch in Telluride, Colorado.

Great food, wine and people! Filmmakers, explorers, scientists, mountaineers and activists to name just a few. A GREAT night in the mountains with extraordinary people.

People can party AND be good to the earth! Mountainfilm and Colorado in general knows what it's doing in that realm. May we ALL be so aware and intelligent in our actions!

Festival Director, David Holbrooke, welcomes the crowd and thanks the many sponsors and people involved in making Mountainfilm happen each year. 32 years later ...still going strong!

The views from Skyline Ranch are spectacular.

And the music pure and just plain good!

We were so honored to meet Nobel Prize Winner, Terry Root (in the middle). She was the opening presenter at the Symposium the next day.

Greg Mortenson, author of Three Cups of Tea and Stones into Schools gave a powerful talk to a full house. Standing ovation followed.

John Valliant, author of The Golden Spruce signing books at the Reading Frenzy.

Nico Calabria and his father Carl answering questions following the film, Nico's Challenge, filmed while they climbed Mt. Kilimanjaro in Tanzania.

World renowned mountaineer, Conrad Anker speaking to a packed house after audiences viewed The Wildest Dream, in which Conrad followed the same path and steps as Mallory and Irvine on Everest in 1923.

Sunrise in Telluride, Colorado

A colorful and diverse crowd waits for the doors to open at the Sheridan Opera house theater. One of 5 theaters in Telluride to host presentations and films for Mountainfilm weekend.

Ed Viesturs giving a spectacular slide show on his quest and completed goal of summiting all 14 of the world's highest peaks, including Everest.

Eating healthy was easy in Telluride! Vegan plate! YUM!

Goodbye Mountainfilm until 2011!