Thursday, November 5th, 2009
The Boulder Adventure Film Festival
The Boulder Adventure Film Festival
November 12 – 14, 2009
More info at: http://www.adventurefilm.org
I found a very cool trailer from a movie that will be premiering at the Festival.
Film: Samsara
In the heart of the lofty, knife-sharp Vindhya Mountains in India sits a 6,500-foot rock and ice route that resembles a massive shark fin and rises from the ocean of crags. This fin, that is twice as long as anything on El Capitan and just as steep, has denied many notable climbers from reaching its summit. In Samsara, Conrad Anker, Jimmy Chin and Renan Ozturk set out to attempt a first ascent. The film is woven together with art, journal excerpts and still photography. Produced by the athletes, Samara is an unfiltered perspective into a powerful Himalayan climbing experience. The team spends twenty days of life on the cliff face with ten days of food through major storm cycles on a hanging platform smaller than the size of a single bed. They push to the very edge of what they thought possible and rediscover why they are drawn to suffer in such sacred and beautiful places.
“Samsara” trailer from renan ozturk on Vimeo.
HT The North Face blog, Never Stop Exploring for the trailer.
The festival looks like something I will definitely check out in years to come.
Andy B
outsideallday.com
on Thursday, November 5th, 2009 at 10:32 am:
wow, climbing a mountain is probably something I would never do. Life is too short to have it end early. But I have a lot of respect for people who can do this. Seems like a interesting film though.
on Wednesday, November 11th, 2009 at 11:09 am:
I can’t wait for this film fest. Anything Jimmy and Conrad do is out of this world. I will most def be checking this out–i remember reading their blogs about this trip almost a year ago–so cool.
I’m also very stoked for the Jackson Hole Air Force movie Swift.Silent.Deep.
I love ski movies.