The 10-day Kendal Mountain Festival programme culminated on Sunday evening with the award ceremony for the International Film Competition.

47 finalists were selected from over 200 entries, and the winner of the Grand Prize was King Lines, a film directed and produced by Peter Mortimer, which follows rock climbing superstar Chris Sharma in search of the planet’s greatest climbs.

The full list of award winners;

Grand Prize King Lines

Adventure Film Academy Gear freak

Climbing Aerialist

Environment The Edge of Eden - Living with Grizzlies

Culture Tribe: Darhad

Film Short Committed Keen Youth

Mountain Adventure Psyche (Patagonia Winter)

Mountaineering The Beckoning Silence

People's Choice Psyche

Special Jury Award Oil and Water Project

The Kendal Mountain Book Festival has become an integral – and rapidly growing – part of the main Mountain Festival, and this year hosted the Boardman Tasker Prize and the International Festival of Mountaineering Literature. Robert Macfarlane’s The Wild Places scooped the Boardman Tasker Prize.

As well as great films and literature the Festival was packed with remarkable speakers and celebrations of all aspects of mountain sport and culture. If you didn’t attend, visit the Festival website to see what you missed.

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