Evenings at the Emerson (and beyond)
Please note:
Entrance to all evening events is separate from clinics.
Attendees will need to purchase individual tickets or a VIP pass to attend the films and
events at the Emerson, regardless of clinic participation.
Après Climb
Every night in the Emerson Ballroom
Come meet our sponsors and athletes, troll for belay partners, and have dinner with us with food available from our official food suppliers. Don’t miss out on a pint of the special signature brew from Bridger Brewing. And don’t forget to enter the raffle for all kinds of great gear from our sponsors. From 5:00pm to 7:30pm each night of the festival.
WEDNESDAY, 12/9
The BROADcast!
Broad Beta’s live storytelling night
FREE - 6:00 PM at The Mountain Project
Sponsored by Broad Beta
with support from Highline Partners
Join us for dinner, drinks, a raffle, and
an evening of inspirational mountain stories.
For women and gender queer folks only. Free admission! Pizza and beer from Bridger Brewing.
Broad Beta: Empowering women and gender queer folks to embrace wild ideas, wild experiences and the preservation of wildness.
Thursday, 12/10
50/50 • EPHEMERAL • BARRY BLANCHARD
7:30 PM at Emerson Crawford Theater
Doors open at 7pm
50/50:
Tying in with a climbing partner means more than just working a few pitches or sending the crux together. It symbolizes an intersection of two approaches to the same sport, and how climbers at either end of a rope share similar goals. For renowned alpinists Ines Papert and Sarah Huenekin, the nexus of their aspirations comes as they both climb past the age of 50, inspired to keep pushing harder to achieve their full potential, while relentlessly working to better understand each other as climbing partners, as well as themselves.
Ephemeral:
As the ice climbing season grows shorter each year, ice and mixed climber Jeff Mercier is driven into Iceland’s unforgiving glacial landscape. Faced with an ever-shifting medium and treacherous terrain, Jeff pushes his own limits as well as the boundaries of his sport. Jeff will be presenting a Q&A session after the screening.
Barry Blanchard:
No stranger to the Bozeman Ice Festival family, Barry Blanchard is a legendary alpinist, mountain guide, and writer who's spent his life on some of the world's steepest, coldest, most complicated faces. From the Canadian Rockies to the Himalaya, he has helped push alpine climbing into harder, riskier terrain. Readers may know him from his first memoir, THE CALLING, where he traced the route from a difficult childhood to a life shaped by mountains. Now, Barry returns with THE ECHO: Stories from the Edge of Survival. The book follows the climbs, close calls, and hard-earned perspective that come after a lifetime on the wall.
Barry will join us here in Bozeman for a Q&A session after his presentation.
FRIDAY, 12/11
Wall of Walls with Will Gadd
+ Teeth to the Wind with Sam Hennessey
+ Bear Canyon Singers & Dancers
7:30 PM at Emerson Crawford Theater
Doors open at 7pm
Wall of Walls with Will Gadd:
Ice climber Will Gadd has spent his life chasing the world’s wildest frozen walls, from Norway to Kilimanjaro. He has hung from waterfalls that collapse beneath him, led expeditions for National Geographic, and earned global recognition for feats that merge skill with survival instinct. Yet his latest discovery, a place he calls the Wall of Walls, was less than fifty kilometres from his home in Canmore.
“It’s the most full-on, intense, radical, complex, and cool climbing zone I’ve ever experienced,” Gadd said. “There are harder or longer routes out there, but none require the same education and wide skill set to succeed.”
Will will be presenting a Q&A session after the screening.
Teeth to the Wind with Sam Hennessey:
Before Michael Gardner's death in Nepal in 2024, he and his climbing partner Sam Hennessey had started a film project about their friendship. Remarkable alpinists, but reluctant filmmakers, Teeth to the Wind realizes Gardner and Hennessey's original vision: a joyful and unassuming glimpse at what they referred to as “the spirit.”
SATURDAY, 12/12
The Garden of Ice - 50 Years of Hyalite
+ Guy Lacelle Service Award Presentation
7:30 PM at Emerson Crawford Theater
Doors open at 7pm
The latest project from local filmmaker Nathan Norby, “The Garden Of Ice” highlights over 50 years of Ice Climbing History in Hyalite Canyon near Bozeman Montana. Originally discovered as an "accident" on a ski tour, the canyon is now one of North America's premiere ice climbing arenas housing over 500+ climbs. This film explores the original pioneers who entered the canyon on wooden skis and wood ice tools to the current generation of inverted climbing and free soloing. Now being one of the busiest roads in Montana, the story also looks into the use case of human traffic on our protected nature areas. The Garden Of Ice is sure to captivate any audience member for any age as the eldest climber is 88 years old and the youngest is still to be born...
SUNDAY, 12/13
Local Legends Dinner + Wrap Party
with Anne Gilbert Chase
6:00 PM at Emerson Ballroom
DETAILS COMING SOON
