The Prague International Mountaineering Festival 2025 begins today at 4:30 p.m. at the International Hotel in Prague 6. Today's program includes a lecture by Jakub Cejpek, who this year completed his collection of ascents of 82 four-thousanders in Alps, and the opening of the exhibitions: Češka koča + Czechia-Slovenia Mutuality and Makalu 1975 + Annapurna 1995. Here is the detailed program:

Program Friday, November 28, 2025

4:30 p.m.    Opening remarks and start of the Festival
     
4:35 p.m.    Jakub Cejpek: Alpine Four-Thousanders
     
5:15 p.m.    Viki Grošelj: Makalu 1975 and Annapurna 1995

5:45 p.m.    Opening of exhibitions:
Češka koča and Czechia-Slovenia Mutuality
Makalu 1975 + Annapurna 1995
     
6:00 p.m.    Break
     
6:30 p.m.    Festival opening ceremony
     
7:00 p.m. Romano Benet: 14 + 1
     
8:15 p.m.    Johann Stüdl Award Ceremony and End of the First Day of the Festival

Program Saturday, November 29, 2025

2nd Symposium Safety in the Mountains
10:00 a.m.    Gregor Dolinar: Mountain Rescue Service in Slovenia

10:45    Gerhard Mössmer: Hiking in the high mountains
     
11:30    BREAK
     
12:00    Ang Tschering Sherpa: The Himalayas and safety
     
12:40    Werner Frömel: Safety in the mountains of East Tyrol

1:10 p.m.    Ecaterina Tolicova: Safety in the mountains – personal responsibility
     
1:25 p.m.    Peter Plattner: Are you ready for winter?
     
1:45 p.m.    BREAK
     
2:15 p.m.    Radek Groh: The southeast face of Hunza Peak – June 2025

15:30    Martin Gratz + Peter Girstmair: Music and film show 100 years since the death of Johann Stüdl
     
16:45    BREAK
     
17:15    Banff Mountain Film Festival - Part 1

6:25 p.m.    Presentation of the book Bezpečně na horách: Turistika na horách (Safety in the Mountains: Hiking in the Mountains)
     
6:45 p.m.    BREAK
     
7:15 p.m.    Nives Meroi: The Crown of the Himalayas and Annapurna 2017
     
8:30 p.m.    Presentation of the Johann Stüdl Award and end of the second day of the festival

Program for Sunday, November 30, 2025

10:00    Banff Mountain Film Festival - Part 2
     
11:30    BREAK
     
12:00    Josef Šimůnek: Antarctica and Mt. Vinson

1:15 p.m.    Radek Jaroš: Isolated Peaks
     
2:15 p.m.    BREAK
     
2:45 p.m.    Mára Holeček: Southeast Face of Cho Oyu - November 2025

4:00 p.m.    Johann Stüdl Award Ceremony and Closing of the 20th MFA


Source:

festivalalpinismu.cz/program