Dundee Mountain Film Festival 2025
The Dundee Mountain Film Festival, which runs from December 5th to 6th, has a truly international feel to it. The films that will be on show – courtesy of the Vancouver International Film Festival – come from as far afield as France, Slovenia and the USA, with countries like Norway, Spain and Canada thrown into the mix. Scotland plays an important part, too, with Kevin Woods’ film about mountaineer Lorraine McCall being given Its world premiere at the festival. “Lorraine’s “Ups “n” Doons” shows an epic circumnavigation of Scotland’s 231 Grahams during the wettest summer on record.
There’s more home-grown talent in the shape of the festival’s four guest speakers. Mountain-biker Sean Green will tell of his battle back to fitness after a serious accident where he broke his neck, while film-maker Kevin Woods’s talk focuses on his recent climbing of the Munros in a single winter.
Shona Marshall is one of the select band who have completed a “full house” – 282 Munros, 227 Munro tops, 222 Corbetts, 231 Grahams, 140 Donalds, 34 Furths and mountains of Munro height in the rest of the UK and Ireland. No prizes to guess what she’ll be talking about!
The climbing career of Leo Houlding stems from his first outing aged 10, and he became Junior Indoor Climbing Champion in 1996. A stellar career followed, including the 2007 Altitude Everest Expedition, which retraced the last steps of George Mallory and Andrew Irvine.
All this plus trade stands, exhibitions and displays makes the Abertay University, Dundee, the place to be that weekend for any outdoor enthusiast.
