樱桃视频Mountain Festival organizers have just released the names involved in a week-long speaker series that's sure to make rock climbing and mountaineering fans take notice.
"The vision of the 樱桃视频Mountain Festival, is to provide a grassroots gathering to celebrate the magic of 樱桃视频climbing, bouldering and mountain culture," states festival director Ivan Hughes.
Audiences will alternate between the Howe Sound Brew Pub and the Eagle Eye Theatre to catch the drama, jubilation and heartbreak of each speaker's experiences in the most daring places on earth.
From July 13 to 21, reknown climbers Tommy Caldwell, Will Gadd, Ines Papert, Ron Kauk and Josune Bereziartu are scheduled to make presentations along with Squamish's own climbing elite, Kevin McLane and Perry Beckham.
McLane is perhaps best known to locals as author of The Climbers Guide to 樱桃视频and his corporate guise of Elaho Publishing, and has been a climber since the late 1960s.
Beckham has been an active climber since the 1970's and works as a guide, professional rigger and volunteer rescue team member. His first climb in 樱桃视频was Diedre with Dave Lane in 1976. Soon he was being acknowledged as one of the strongest and fastest climbers in the area and is best known for the route that bares his name, Perry's Layback.
Kauk has been pushing the limits of free climbing for three decades: from the first ascent of Astroman and Midnight Lightning in the late '70s to the first 5.14 in the '90s.
Caldwell resides in Estes Park, Colorado and was part of a team of climbers that was taken hostage by rebels in Kyrgyzstan. They narrowly escaped the adventure, and the following year, Caldwell accidentally sawed off much of his left index finger with a table saw. But nothing has slowed his drive.
Canmore resident Gadd is a three-time Canadian sport-climbing champion. In 1998 and 1999, Gadd placed first in every major ice competition in the world. He also won the 2000 Ice World Cup. Recently he opened the hardest mixed ice-climbing route in the world, Musashi, located in the Rockies.
Papert is an inspirational athlete who, in the last ten years, has set new standards for ice/mixed, rock and alpine climbing. She worked hard to become a four time Ice Climbing World Champion and has won three World Cup Titles.
For Bereziartu, finishing Bimbaluna a 65-foot (20-meter) limestone well in Saint Loup, Switzerland, was a real coup; no woman had ever climbed one of the world's few 5.15s.
What had taken the route's first ascensionist three years took her just five weeks of dogged determination.
The speakers are only a part of what the festival will have to offer, along with climbing clinics, competitions, adventure films, trail maintenance days, and of course, raging parties."
