Kendal Mountain Film Festival 2004 - Highlights Gallery

Festival Banner outside the Brewery	Festival crowds wait outside the Kendal Leisure Centre	Brewery Arts Centre
Extreme Film School students at the BBC Manchester	Mark Batey filming Andy Parkin during the How to make an Adventure Film day	How to make an Adventure film day looked at filming and editing
The attendees of the Make an Adventure Film look at editing film	Rob Collister skis The back of beyond on the Thursday evening	Chris Bonington, Mayoress of Kendal & Kate Wright open the art & photo exhibitions
Artists meet - Andy Parkin & Rowan Huntley	Heinz Zak discusses his photographs	John Porter shows that Fast and Committed was around 20 years ago
Al Powell talks on Big remote faces in Greenland for the DMM Friday evening	Nick Bullock takes the audience on to Fear & Loathing on Jirishanca, Peru	The BMC MEF Cutting Edge of British Mountaineering team
Dermot Somers reading from his Collected Short Stories during the Book Festival	The Book Fair in the Town Hall was a great success selling both old and new publications.	The Book Fair featured readings as well as shops
Heinz Zak's audio visual lecture was one of the outstnding events of the weekend	Festival director John Porter meets his old mate Bernard Newman, editor of Climber Magazine	David Hamilton lecturing at the Jagged Globe sponsored lecture on climbing in the Greater Ranges.
Bars and Restaurants in the Brewery were full all weekend	Dr Jim Duff, doctor and photograher chats with mountain guide and film maker John Whittle	The Malt room bar was used for a series of Extreme Films and fringe lectures and meetings
Dr Charles Clarke's lecture on Saturday night	Yvon Chouinard in deep conversation with film maker Leo Dickinson	The Festival is all about meeting old friends and having fun
Saturday night DJ session was packed	Dancing till 2 am on Saturday night	Banner maker John Dugger displayed his work and gave an thought provoking talk on the history of the banner makers art
Yvon Chouinard discusses his environmental policies with the audience	A rare visit to these shores was ice climbing legend Jeff Lowe	John Dugger's mountain banners in the Sugar Store Gallery
The Grand Prize trophy sculpted by Andy Parkin	Festival director Brian Hall awards the prize for the Extreme Film School film award	Festival Judge, Swiss film maker Fulvio ~Mariani
Justine Wright film editor (Touching the Void) and film judge	Heinz Zak recieves best short film award for Highliner	Dermot Somers, climber, writer & broadcaster and one of the Festivals 5 film judges
Alastair Lee celebrates winning the Peoples Choice award for Twice upon a time in Bolivia	Author & adventure kayaker Maria Coffey was one of the hard working judges but also took part in the Book Festival and gave two lectures	Alan Hinkes recieves the Grand Prize on behalf of the makers of Your Himalayas from Lewis Grundy of Presenting sponsor Berghaus
John Porter, Festival director relaxing on Sunday evening after a years hard work