Jury

Tom grew up in Mexico City and Munich. His love for mountains was passed on to him by his parents and he’s travelled and climbed all over the world – in the Alps, Patagonia, Andes, Himalayas, and Karakoram. Tom is successfully juggling his passion with his job as a journalist. He’s a well-known mountain writer, famous mainly for the biographies of Reinhard Karl and Kurt Albert, as well as for his work Cerro Torre – The Myth of Patagonia. He’s writing columns for the Alpin and Bergundsteigen magazines and is the screenwriter and director of award-winning documentaries. He lives with his family between Munich and the Alps.

An alpinist and mountain guide who has a special place in his heart for mountains and alpinism for as long as he can remember. His enduring love for dry rock has been intertwined with Himalayan giants, steep ice and mixed routes, and ski touring. In a single year, he summited Everest and Aconcagua, opened a difficult route on the north face of Triglav, climbed an 8b sport route… And had his first daughter. He always tries to capture notable moments from his mountain adventures with photography and writing. He’s had his photos exhibited on several occasions, he writes articles, and his come computer is full of his stories. For fifteen years, he compiled and wrote alpinism news for a Slovenian newspaper and website.

Marjeta was born into a mountaineering family and from an early age, she’d already fallen in love with the mountains and the wisdom of people living close to them. A history professor with a degree in ethnology, she’s spent almost twenty years making documentaries and TV features about the natural and cultural heritage of mountainous areas all over the world. For ten years, she was in charge of a monthly TV show called Gore in ljudje (Mountains and People) on Slovenian national television, which garnered several awards on international festivals. Her postgraduate studies were in Ljubljana and London and she has worked extensively on heritage interpretation. She was the vice-president of CIPRA International, as well as a founding member of Mountain Wilderness Slovenija and Interpret Europe. Recently, her main focus has been her work at the National Institute of Public Health.