Media release: Elite mountain bike racer, Mikayla Parton, wins Youth Mountain Award
The festival’s youth ambassador award, established in 2015, celebrates adventurous young people, the landscapes they choose to explore and the outdoor pursuits in which they excel.
The young winner needs to have shown resilience and determination to succeed within their chosen area of expertise, shown results through their own efforts and ideas, given back to their community, whilst being thought of as an example of excellence by others.
Mikayla Parton epitomises these winning principles perfectly. Her meteoric rise to the top of the international downhill mountain bike race scene, from riding her first trail bike in 2015 to placing fifth at the UCI Mountain Bike World Championships 2020, in just five years can be attributed to an obvious raw talent, constant hard work, dedicated training, motivation, focus and a dogged determination for success.
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Media release: Fort William Mountain Festival 2021 goes Covid-19 safe
THE new online programme for The Fort William Mountain Festival 2021 has been announced.
A superb collection of adventure films covering 12 different themes, each set comprising four to five uplifting, exhilarating and educational films from around the world.
As a direct result of the current Covid-19 restrictions, organisers of the Fort William Mountain Festival have today, Sunday 14 February 2021, announced a fully digital programme for the 17
th edition of the world-renowned festival.
Undeterred by the Covid-19 pandemic the organising committee of enthusiastic volunteers will present a stunning line-up of inspirational films; impressive action and adventure, educational and environmental, all organised from the bustling Highland town of Fort William, the beating heart of the ‘Outdoor Capital of the UK’.