National Geographic's biggest fan here at Banff, Jim Olver, gave us a tour of the Banff Centre yesterday and introduced us to the Leighton Artists' Colony, which Banff supports in addition to the Mountain Films.
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November 9, 2009 2:02 PM
The Wildest Dream Debuts at Banff
Posted By Amy Bucci - BlogWild Contributor
The Wildest Dream got its Canadian debut screening Saturday night at the Banff Mountain Film festival. The new National Geographic feature film combines fascinating archival video footage of George Mallory and Andrew Irvine on Mount Everest in 1924, love letters between Mallory and his wife Ruth, and a bold attempt to recreate Mallory and Irvine's bid for the summit by modern-day climbers Conrad Anker and Leo Houlding.
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National Geographic photographer Steve Winter had the Banff festival audience laughing and gasping as he shared gorgeous photographs and riveting stories of capturing the rare snow leopard in Ladakh, India. Extreme altitude and cold, plus some exhausting travel, had made for an emotionally stressful time for Steve, but fun stories for us!
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November 6, 2009 10:16 AM
Banff Film Festival Brings It On
Posted By Amy Bucci - BlogWild Contributor
National Geographic's Expeditions Council has come out in force for the Banff Mountain Film and Book Festivals, conducting workshops to help filmmakers and authors pitch ideas to National Geographic Television, National Geographic Books, and our magazines.
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Dereck and Beverly Joubert, National Geographic Explorers-in-Residence, have spent nearly three decades living alongside Africa’s lions and leopards. Working out of a tent or truck, they spend months at a time observing and learning about these top predators. With a collaborative storytelling style that weaves together Beverly’s photography and sound recordings with Dereck’s film footage and writing, they have created dozens of award-winning films, books, and magazine articles. They also now are helping National Geographic with the Big Cats Initiative, which was announced yesterday on the Today Show (and on this blog!).
Because of Beverly and Dereck's patience and love for these animals, we are lucky to have this beautiful slide show of images to share with you.
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National Geographic Emerging Explorer T.H. Culhane and his wife Sybille are passionate about energy and garbage. In fact, they are so committed to investigating new ways of approaching energy problems that they moved into a slum in Cairo, and are teaching the people there how to make solar water heaters from recycled materials and biogas from trash.
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It was 50 years ago in Olduvai Gorge that Louis and Mary Leakey found fragments of teeth and a skull that were part of a male hominid they called Zinjanthropus, or Nutcracker Man, because of his huge teeth. This led to field research programs in Ethiopia and Kenya, the findings of which now dominate discussions of human evolution. To celebrate this occasion, on September 30, 2009, Richard Leakey will be leading a symposium at the Rockefeller University that will examine the development of scientific prehistory research in East Africa since the discovery of the Zinjanthropus fossil.
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The 2009 Fellows from Pop!Tech–led by National Geographic Fellow Andrew Zolli–have been announced, and this year the group includes the amazing Eben Bayer of Ecovative Design. Eben and fellow RPI graduate Gavin McIntyre were fascinated by mushrooms growing on wood chips and observed how the fungi strongly bonded the wood chips together. This observation led them into a business developing green materials using this sticky organism. Their packaging is an amazing 100% compostable and biodegradable because it's made from seed husks and mushroom roots!
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September 18, 2009 6:55 PM
Cow Tongues May Be Damaging the Past
Posted By Amy Bucci - BlogWild Contributor
National Geographic Society/Waitt grantee Alexander Geurds has discovered some amazing statues in a remote area in Nicaragua. The site is in remarkably good shape, safe from dangers such as looting, but apparently not safe from the occasional curious cow.
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September 16, 2009 6:06 PM
Mike Fay Hikes 1,800 Miles for the Redwoods
Posted By Amy Bucci - BlogWild Contributor
National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence Mike Fay's Redwood Transect is featured on the cover of this month's magazine. The buzz here is all about the redwoods, Mike's amazing walk and the huge, cool, special foldout image of a redwood tree in the middle of the magazine.
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In a remote region of Patagonia, enormous craters measuring up to 500 meters wide and 50 meters in depth could be evidence to a bombardment of meteorites. This meteoroid impact field, the largest in the southern hemisphere, is of extreme interest for National Geographic Society/Waitt grantee Rogelio Acevedo.
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