This year's 24th Dundee Mountain Film Festival takes place at the University of Dundee's Bonar Hall, on Friday evening 24th November and all day Saturday 25th November. There will be four separate performances of the best films, presentations and speakers from the world of mountaineering and exploration.

On Friday evening come on an Arctic Adventure 'Coburg Island and Beyond' as explorer and photographer John Dunn shares stories and outstanding images from his recent skiing expeditions, with the focus on his 2005 journey to one of Canada's least visited arctic islands. Friday's programme includes the screening of Douglas Eadie's film 'Haston - A Life in the Mountains'.

Grantown's Karen Darke 'By Hands and Feet across Greenland' will be at the festival on Saturday morning. Karen and five friends ski-ed across Greenland in May this year - nothing remarkable except Karen is paralysed and was propelling herself with arms only in a sit-ski! In the film 'Mountain of Ice', Jon Krakauer, author of 'Into Thin Air', world class mountaineer Conrad Anker and a team of climbers and scientists take a trailblazing expedition to the top of Antarctica's tallest peak, Vinson Massif.

Keith Partridge, from Fife, climbing and adventure cameraman, takes us on a personal journey on Saturday afternoon 'Don't Look Down – a Sideways look at Mountain Film-making' with stories and video clips from series like 'The Edge', 'Wild Climbs', 'The Face', 'Touching The Void' and 'Top Gear'. Also showing is the Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour with action packed extreme mountain sport films and a world premiere bouldering film shot in the City of Discovery!

Saturday evening features two presentations. We go on the trail of Queen Victoria in the Highlands 'The Real Mrs Brown' with Scotland's own Ian R Mitchell. We return to the happy world of the Middle Ages re-created by Victoria on Deeside, and follow in her footsteps on the ascents of Lochnagar, Ben Macdui and Bheinn a Bhuird.

Long before Hollywood jumped on the climbing bandwagon with films such as 'Cliffhanger' and 'Vertical Limit', Canadian climber Chic Scott was suspended high above terra firma on the forbidding North Face of the Eiger. The year was 1975 and the film was 'The Eiger Sanction'. Shot on location in Switzerland, it starred the legendary actor and director Clint Eastwood. Come and enjoy vintage slides and film clips and Chic Scott's rollicking storytelling style. Chic has been climbing, skiing and guiding, and writing about it, for the past forty years. His 'Pushing the Limits: The Story of Canadian Mountaineering' is considered a modern classic.

Tickets are on sale in Dundee, Perth and Aberdeen, by post or at the door of the Bonar Hall during the festival weekend subject to availability. Visit some of the world's wildest and most beautiful places, be inspired and live your dreams with the 2006 Dundee Mountain Film Festival.

Main sponsors are Tiso, Zestco, The Scottish Mountaineering Trust, Highland Park and Climber. For more information visit www.dundeemountainfilm.org.uk or e-mail mail@dundeemountainfilm.org.uk