Tussey Mountain is not the Swiss Alps, and Spring Creek isn't quite the same as the fjords of Norway.

However, these extreme locations and adventures will be featured tonight at 7 through the Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour, courtesy of the Moshannon Group of the Sierra Club, at the Penn Stater Conference Center Hotel, 215 Innovation Blvd. The revenue brought in by ticket sales will go, in part, to funding programs and awareness about the local environment.

"This is very exciting for us," Ronn Brourman, Moshannon Group program director, said. "We've been trying to get Banff to come to State College for a couple of years now."

The film festival is a huge event held in Banff, Alberta, once a year. That screening features a compilation of films that are sent in by adventurers in a multitude of sports and activities, or documentaries created by animal and environment lovers. The films are all shot independently with different directors and producers. The festival itself receives hundreds of submissions from all areas of the world, so after the original screening, the highlights of the festival tour the Earth.

At each stop on the tour, local hosts select which films "capture the essence and also appeal to people in the area," Moshannon Group chairman Gary Thornbloom said.

As a voice in the choices for tonight's showing, Thornbloom helped pick the seven films that will be shown. They range from settings as rugged as the waterfalls of Iceland to those as familiar as someone's backyard.

One chosen film, titled Eiger North Face, won the award in the festival's "climbing" category. "It takes two people, and they look at the original climb and redo it in the same gear and style that it was originally done in," said Seana Strain, Banff Centre world tour assistant. "It gives you a great respect for the people who did the original climb."

This film includes the preparation and the ascent of the replication of the original 1938 climb.

Another film, Cost of Freedom, takes on the subject of wolves being re-released into the wilderness and examines it in a documentary-type style. "It deals with the reintroduction program on all sides of the issue," Thornbloom said.

Other films include events such as extreme mountain biking, kayaking through waterfalls, a rock-climbing dog and seeking the perfect trampoline. The films have distinct qualities, either in adrenaline-rushing adventures, foreign landscapes or the special brand of Canadian humor. "I found that each one had a unique value," Brourman said.

The festival has been popular across the world. It travels to six continents and makes hundreds of showings, but it is in such high demand that it is hard to book, which is why the upcoming event is drawing in people from all over and out of the state. "This is very exciting for the area," Brourman said.