An ice climber ascends at Alaska's Mendenhall Glacier during filming of "Blue Obsession," a 2011 Banff Mountain Film Festival finalist. (Courtesy photo: Alan Gordon)

People who produce adventure films featured in the Banff Mountain Film Festival shouldn’t be stereotyped as hard-core, muscle-powered adrenaline junkies with a death wish. “I’d never been ice climbing before I went to Alaska to help shoot ‘Blue Obsession,’ ” Jordan Halland of Coeur d’Alene said. Halland, 31, is the first Inland Northwest filmmaker to help produce one of about 50 films selected from more than 300 entries for screening at the fabled Alberta festival. He introduced the 8-minute movie to a full house at the Bing Crosby Theater last weekend. “Blue Obsession” was among 21 top films featured in the Banff Festival’s World Tour/Rich Landers, SR Outdoors. More here.

Question: Have you ever climbed a mountain?