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Michael Brown
 Michael
is a filmmaker and adventurer.He has reached the summit of Mount Everest
three times from routes in Nepal and Tibet. He has received five National
Emmy Award nominations for film work and won three. Michael’s
films have also won twenty-six international film festival awards.
The summit of Everest is nice on a climbing resume but, for a filmmaker,
exploration of the unknown in the wildest and most difficult to reach
parts of the world hold the most meaning.
Lucy Creamer
 Lucy
Creamer has been climbing for 15 years and has racked up an impressive
array of ascents. She was the British Difficulty Champion in 1997/98,
1999, 2001, 2003 and 2005, British Bouldering champion in 2001 and
British Masters champion in 1998. Lucy is regularly featured on the
television, radio and in regional and national newspapers.
Christine Kopp
 Christine
began her career as a freelance translator, journalist and editor.
She specialises in mountaineering and tourism issues and has translated
9 books from Italian and French. Since 1994 she has been responsible
for the mountaineering pages of the well-known Swiss newspaper Neue
Zürcher Zeitung. Christine
loves travel, climbing and ski mountaineering.
Pierre Simoni
 Pierre was a producer for the Swiss Romand TV channel in Geneva, where
he directed several programmes. Amongst his numerous achievements,
Pierre has been President and Artistic Director of the International
Alpine Film Festival of ‘Les Diablerets’. He has also
been a member of the Swiss Alpine Club and in 2000 participated in
the creation of the AIFM - International Mountain Film Alliance.
Julie Summers
 Julie
stared writing biographical pieces whilst working at the Henry Moore
Foundation. Julie’s great uncle, Sandy Irvine climbed
Everest in 1924 with George Mallory and disappeared somewhere above
8,000m never to be seen again. She began to research his life and
after Mallory’s body was discovered on the mountain in 1999,
decided to write Irvine’s biography. Fearless on Everest: The
Quest for Sandy Irvine was published in 2000. Her second book was
a pictorial anthology of the life of Sir Ernest Shackleton. Entitled
The Shackleton Voyages it was published in November 2002. Film Competition
Festival Judges
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