Nov. 16, 2011 - Issue #839: Ox
The best of the fest
» From the film Cold
Cold
forgemotionpictures.com
The festival's grand prize winner is a harrowing account of cold weather mountaineering and the physical and emotional toll exacted by winter ascents. In February 2011, climber and photographer Cory Richards and two colleagues made the first successful winter ascent of one of Pakistan's 8000 metre peaks—a journey which near killed them. Cold tells their story. As well as picking up top honours in Banff, it has won accolades from four international film festivals and last week snagged an an Austrian film prize.
Downhill Affair
rightonbrother.com
A short but poignant look at love in the workplace, with a twist—the couple in question are professional freeskiers Zack Giffin and Molly Baker. Tracking their risky endeavours, the film puts a different slant on the nature of big mountain adventure and the impacts for those who undertake it.
Origins: Obe and Ashima
reelrocktour.com/films
Obe Carrion was one of sport climbing’s biggest rising stars in the early 2000s. From a rough childhood in Philly, Carrion had swaggered onto the world stage. Then, abruptly, he vanished. His path to redemption crosses with that of nine-year-old Ashima, a young climbing phenom he takes on as a student. A touching tale fraught with the complexity of sport and youth development.
Treeverse
uncagethesoul.com/uncategorized/treeverse/
Simple adventuring at its best. Two men tackle a one-kilometre transect through the forest canopy, through a grove of oak trees along the perimeter of a pasture in northwest Oregon. Watch this and you’ll look at trees differently.
CARCA
carca.ca
It has been a long uphill struggle for the Canadian Avalanche Rescue Cat Association but the time has now come to tell their story. In a field dominated by dogs, acceptance of felines is slow to come but the innovative founders will not rest until CARCA has achieved its mandate. This film documents the first successful rescue mission by a CARCA cat, and subsequent innovative testing for cat deployment. (Warning: rated R for cat lovers.)
Boom
The unheralded work of avalanche crews is set to classical music in this simple, joyous film. Turn up the volume and enjoy.
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