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The Banff Mountain Film Festival is uprooting from the mothership festival in the Canadian Rockies and will shortly be heading to the Dancehouse Theatre in Manchester on Saturday Feb 13 at 7:30pm on one of its stops on a UK wide tour.

The Banff World Tour features award-winning films and audience favourites from about 300 films entered each year in Banff. Come and see why more than 200,000 people across the globe gather indoors at Banff screenings to celebrate the outdoors!

As well as seeing amazing films, you can also win some GREAT PRIZES INCLUDING A 7 DAY MONT BLANC TREK. The bar will be open too!

The award-winning climbing film featuring on the evening will be FIRST ASCENT: ALONE ON THE WALL which follows the incredible groundbreaking free-solo ascents of Alex Honnolt. After gaining international climbing renown for his landmark free-solo climb of "Moonlight Buttress" in Zion National Park, Alex moves on to his next big challenge: the first free-solo of the massive "Regular Northwest Face" route (2000 vertical feet) on Yosemite National Park’s Half Dome.

As well as First Ascent, there will be a selection of other brilliant mountain based films featuring mountain biking, skiing/snowboarding, whitewater kayaking and speed flying (a cross between paragliding and skiing including some incredible aerial footage as they descend Mont Blanc).

Tickets - £10 in advance (tickets available on door if not sold out)
For full details of the films showing & to buy tix head to http://www.banff-uk.com. Alternatively you can also call Quay Tickets to buy tix on 0843 208 0500.

Other dates on the Banff UK tour include:

• 3 & 4 February Union Chapel, Islington, London
• 6 February Theatre By The Lake, Keswick
• 11 February Komedia Club, Brighton
• 18 & 21 February Carriageworks Theatre, Leeds
• 20 February Theatr Mwldan, Cardigan