A record number of people attended the 29th Dundee Mountain Film Festival in the Bonar Hall over the weekend.
Adventurer Mark Beaumont gave a sell-out Friday night audience his presentation on his round-the-world cycle record.
Mark followed up with his cycle journey down through the Rockies and Andes while climbing North America’s highest peak, Mt McKinley, and South America’s Aconcagua.
He then discussed colder climes Mark joined three companions to row through open water to the magnetic North Pole this year.
The hall was full on Saturday night for Austrian mountaineer and climbing legend Peter Habeler.
In 1978 he summited Mt Everest with Reinhold Messner the first pair to do so without supplementary oxygen.
Scottish author and historian Ian R Mitchell talked to a record Saturday morning audience about Aberdeen-born Dr Alexander Kellas, who used study and his own 1920s ascents of the Himalayan peaks to predict that the highest mountains would one day be climbed without supplementary oxygen.
Another little-known explorer was heralded in the film Tom Crean: Antarctica’s Forgotten Hero.
Irishman Crean sailed with Scott and Shackleton on three Antarctic expeditions.
Jonny Hawkins from St Andrews University, a member of the British Universities 2011 Kayaking Expedition, told the Saturday afternoon audience about the team’s exploits as they opened up new water in Venezuela.
Films from the Banff Mountain Film Festival were screened alongside films from Dundee climbers, Angus cyclists and Fife ultra-runners.
Festival chairman Alfie Ingram said: ”I thank everyone who came along to this year’s festival and supported the events a record attendance, and all the more remarkable in today’s difficult economic times.”
The 30th festival will be held on November 23 and 24 next year.