The 2011 Fort William Mountain Festival will be starting soon with both a series of films and other events around Ben Nevis.
Running from Friday 11th to Monday 15th February 2011, the festival is designed to cover the full “diversity of mountain culture” with lectures and films from some of the world’s top climbers and skiers.
This year you can also get involved with a number of activities designed to help climbers of all abilities such as the avalanche awareness course, winter-climbing or winter-walking workshop.
The festival also seems to be gathering in other risky sports such as white water paddling with the opening day being dedicated “Paddling Evening”, showing three films “A drop in the ocean, and aware of it”, “Searching for the Rivergod” and “Wild Water”.
Another departure from mountaineering will be the Jump Jam where you can in essence take a mountain bike and practice all those moves the experts do, but without breaking any bones. Of all the extreme sports, this one actually looks quite fun – video of Jump Jam example.
There’s a video introduction to the 2011 Fort William Mountain Festival below:
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Thanks to Fresh Air Fix for the heads up
