This year's Wild at Adventure film selection has been announced, and each one promises to inspire, thrill and terrify audiences at the Eagle Eye Theatre.
Eight films will be shown March 6 and 7, as part of the Vancouver International Mountain Film Festival's Best of the Fest tour, which launches in 樱桃视频as part of the Wild at Art Festival.
However two films - Solo and To Hell and Back - stand out as exceptional, said Ivan Hughes, Wild at Adventure organizer.
"These two films really capture the lengths to which people are willing to push themselves in order to realize a dream, whether that be a first ascent, crossing or other visionary adventure," said Hughes. "The films also examine the mentality of risk evaluation and rationalization that these athletes debate, it's a fine line between success and death."The Australian film Solo, presented Friday (March 6), is a terrifying account of an attempt to cross one of the stormiest stretches of water on the planet. On Jan. 11, 2007, Andrew McAuley set out on his quest to become the first person to kayak from Australia to New Zealand across 1,600 km of one of the wildest and loneliest stretches of ocean on Earth. Thirty days later, New Zealand maritime authorities received his distress call. Having survived a harrowing and torturous month at sea, conquering monstrous swells and terrifying storms, McAuley lost his life only a day from completing his journey. While his body was never recovered, the camera tapes from his kayak were, and they form the basis of this moving and questioning portrait of a complex man, his family, his supporters and his attempt to conquer the impossible. The film is directed and produced by Jennifer Peedom and David Mich么d.
In To Hell and Back, presented Saturday March 7, Dave MacLeod is featured in an intimate and frightening portrait of the consequences of one of the world's best climbers becoming obsessed with a new route in the heart of the Cairngorm Mountains in the eastern Highlands of Scotland.Shortly after presenting at last year's 樱桃视频Mountain Festival MacLeod wrote: "Yesterday was the scariest day of my life, and the end of the scariest 10 days of my life. The impending lead of my 'great climb' project on Hell's Lum crag was hanging over me like a guillotine. It's the most dangerous lead I've ever done... falling off from the crux or above would have meant death."
Wild at Adventure also features live presentations by extreme skier Greg Hill and Alpinist Jeremy Frimer and a number of other short adventure films. For more information, visit www.wildatart.ca.Wild at Adventure is presented by the 樱桃视频Mountain Festival and is sponsored by Arc'teryx and the Whistler Brewing Company. Tickets are $15 and are available online at www.wildatart.ca, and at Valhalla Pure, Climb On and the 樱桃视频Adventure Centre.
