{"id":222207,"date":"2026-01-05T20:20:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T20:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/222207\/"},"modified":"2026-01-05T20:20:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T20:20:08","slug":"usu-outdoor-programs-to-screen-50th-anniversary-banff-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/222207\/","title":{"rendered":"USU Outdoor Programs to Screen 50th Anniversary Banff Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"

In its 50th year, the Banff Centre Mountain Film Festival is returning to Utah State University.<\/p>\n

The annual screening will take place at 7 p.m. Feb. 5 and 6 in the Ellen Eccles Theatre. This year the festival is celebrating 50 epic years of taking people to the world\u2019s wildest places \u2014 from towering peaks to untamed rivers, from life-changing expeditions to edge-of-your-seat action. <\/p>\n

Each night showcases different films. One night, attendees may watch climbers scale incredible heights or crazy 6,900-kilometer voyages across land and sea. The next night, personal passion stories to skiers taking on winter wonderlands. <\/p>\n

The Banff Centre Mountain Film and Book Festival is one of the largest and most prestigious mountain festivals in the world. Single night tickets cost $24 and admission for both nights costs $40. USU students can grab single-night tickets for $18, and military\/first responders get a 10% discount. Purchase tickets online at cachearts.org<\/a>, using the \u201cshows & tickets\u201d dropdown and selecting \u201cBanff.\u201d <\/p>\n

Buying tickets helps aid the Lyon, Maas, Mueggler Outdoor Leadership Scholarship. All profits go to fund the scholarship, which pays 50% of a student\u2019s tuition for the Desert Mountain Medicine Wilderness First Responder certification course. <\/p>\n

About the Lyon, Maas, Mueggler Outdoor Leadership Scholarship<\/p>\n

The scholarship is named for Max Lyon, Keith Maas and Karl Mueggler, who died in an avalanche in the Bear River Range East of Logan on Jan. 12, 1997.<\/a> <\/p>\n

The three young men were exceptional athletes, noted for their climbing, kayaking and back-country skiing abilities, among their many other outdoor talents. The true measure of their impact on the world, however, lay beyond their seemingly insatiable spirit of adventure. <\/p>\n

While they were alive, Max, Keith and Karl took a leap beyond just adventure into that greater world of human richness, human imagination, human kindness, compassion and commitment. They were always driven to somehow make a difference in whatever course their lives took at the moment. <\/p>\n

They weren\u2019t just adventurers: they were educators, outdoor activists, voices for the community, committed professionals and all-around good people. The scholarship was set up as an attempt to continue that legacy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In its 50th year, the Banff Centre Mountain Film Festival is returning to Utah State University. The annual…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":222208,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[146,85,46,4178,43,13372,22055,789,13265,8445,122176],"class_list":{"0":"post-222207","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-il","10":"tag-israel","11":"tag-media","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-press-releases","14":"tag-stories","15":"tag-story","16":"tag-today","17":"tag-utah","18":"tag-utah-state-university"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222207\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}