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Alpinist, climber and book editor Catherine Destivelle will receive the WOP Mendi Film Award 2025

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27 October 2025

The WOP Mendi Film 2025 Award goes to Catherine Destivelle. With the 18th edition of the Mendi Film Festival in full swing, she will receive recognition from the organizers and, above all, the public in Bilbao. The event will take place on Friday, December 12th the Euskalduna Bilbao, starting at 7:45 p.m. It will undoubtedly be one of the festival's highlights, as it will conclude with the premiere of the film ‘Champions of the Golden Valley’, from the Official Section, presented by its director Ben Sturgulewski.

The WOP Mendi Film Award is awarded by The Walk On Project Foundation and the Mendi Film, and this year marks its 12th edition. Various personalities and organizations have been recognized for their contribution to mountain culture and for being leaders in the values ​​they convey.

 

Catherine Destivelle (1960, Oran)

Climber, mountaineer, writer, editor and conference speaker. Catherine Destivelle probably never imagined where her first steps climbing the boulders of Fontainebleau, where her parents took her to play as a child, would lead her. At 16, she was already climbing in the Verdon. Her victory in the first world climbing championship in Bardonechia (1985) propelled her into the professional world. Then came the leap into mountaineering: the first solo female winter ascent of the north face of the Eiger, the first absolute repeat of the Bonatti route on the north face of the Matterhorn, the Trango Tower, the ascent of the south-west face of Shisha Pangma... all of which forged her path. In 2020 she was awarded the Piolet d'Or for her career.

She founded the publishing house Les éditions du Mont-Blanc with the aim of transforming the mountain itself into an educational tool. The books she publishes reveal incredible mountaineering stories and share a love of the mountains. “My goal is to build a bridge between cultural history, sporting heritage and the ecological and scientific concerns of the times we live in”, she says. Her publishing team is deliberately made up entirely of women.

Catherine Destivelle has a direct connection with Mendi Film. She is revered as the protagonist of the film ‘Au de la des cimes’ directed by Rémy Tezier, and winner of the Grand Prize in 2009. In 2017, she actively participated in Mendi Film's tenth anniversary, participating in the panel talk ‘Women at the Top’ alongside Lynn Hill, Edurne Pasaban, Josune Bereziartu, Bernadette McDonald, and Katie Ives; in the presentation on mountain literature alongside Bernadette McDonald, Katie Ives, Lara Izagirre, and Luisa Alonso Cires; and finally, with a solo lecture: ‘From Bouldering to High Mountains Ascent’.

Edurne Pasaban, Lynn Hill, Catherine Destivelle, Josune Bereziartu, Katie Ives and Bernadette McDonald, at the Mendi Film 2017

 

WOP Mendi Film Award

18. BBK Mendi Film Bilbao Bizkaia

December 12, at 19.45 pm

Euskalduna Bilbao - hall 0B

 

WOP Mendi Film Award:

·       2024: Basque and Navarre mountain federations

·       2023: Edurne Pasaban

·       2022: Eduardo Martínez de Pisón

·       2021: Sebastián Álvaro

·       2020: Fundación Baltistán Fundazioa

·       2019: Nives Meroi e Romano Benet 

·       2018: Juanjo San Sebastián 

·       2017: Peter Habeler 

·       2016: Sir Chris Bonington 

·       2015: Josep Manuel Anglada 

·       2014: Drawn film by Jeremy Collins

The Basque Mountain Federation and Mendi Film renew their collaboration agreement until 2028

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24 October 2025

Zigor Egia (EMF-FVM vice president), Jabier Baraiazarra (Mendi Film president and director) and Ricardo Hernani (EMF-FVM president)

Bilbao, October 24, 2025. The Basque Mountain Federation (EMF-FVM) and the Mendi Film Festival Association will continue to work together for the next four years. Meeting in Bilbao, the current leaders of both organizations, Ricardo Hernani and Zigor Egia (president and vice president of EMF-FVM), and Jabier Baraiazarra (president and director of Mendi Film), have signed the agreement that unites them.

Read more: The Basque Mountain Federation and Mendi Film renew their collaboration agreement until 2028

More Articles …

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  2. 11,000 spectators have enjoyed the best mountain cinema at 32 MENDI TOUR events in five months
  3. The figure of a climber at a glacial cave is the main image of BBK Mendi Film Bilbao Bizkaia 2025
  4. The Basque Mountain Museum-EMMOA has been named as a new member of the International Alliance of Mountain Museums, IMMA
  5. Jabi Baraiazarra to begin third term as IAMF President
  6. The IAMF 2025 Grand Prize has been awarded to French director Sébastien Montaz-Rosset
  7. 9,800 spectators attended the 17th edition of BBK Mendi Film Bilbao Bizkaia, 34% up on last year festival
  8. ‘Songs of Earth’ wins the Mendi Film Grand Price, a Norwegian film with “magnificent cinematography, a poetic narration and a sublime soundtrack”
  9. Mendi Film is in full swing with a great first weekend
  10. BBK Mendi Film Bilbao Bizkaia, the mountain film festival suitable for all ages from December 6 to 15
  11. 49 films in the Official Section and in Zabalandi of the BBK Mendi Film Bilbao Bizkaia 2024
  12. The MENDI FILM BEKA 2025 this year has novelties: we are opening the grant to amateur and professional filmmakers
  13. Renan Ozturk awarded with the 2024 IAMF Grand Prize
  14. The main image of BBK Mendi Film Bilbao Bizkaia 2024 burns with “Fuego”
  15. The Basque Country and Navarre mountain federations to receive the WOP Mendi Film 2024 award
  16. THE GREAT WHITE WHALE, winner of the Mendi Film Grand Prize, an inspiring story of mountaineers and sailors pursuing the dream of climbing Australia's highest and loneliest mountain
  17. 17 World premieres at the 16th edition of the BBK Mendi Film Bilbao Bizkaia
  18. Presenting: HARRI, ORRI, ARkatz, the world's largest climbing topos exhibition inside BBK Mendi Film Bilbao Bizkaia basecamp
  19. This year’s Mendi Tour has been a roadshow of record-breaking proportions: 14,000 spectators in 53 venues
  20. Films, exhibitions, conferences, the Jury... This is what the 16th Mendi Film will be like!
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