14th
Annual New Paltz Climbing Film Festival
Featuring the 2012 Reel Rock Film Tour
7:30 PM:
Saturday, October 6, 2012
SUNY at New Paltz
Lecture Center Hall
Reel Rock delivers the year’s
most exciting climbing and adventure films to audiences in over 100 cities
around the world.
Reel Rock founders Josh Lowell and Peter Mortimer have been producing and directing
climbing and adventure films for over a decade, with devoted audiences around
the world. Their work has been featured on NBC, NPR, and The New York Times,
and has won a Sports Emmy Award, plus dozens of awards at international film
festivals.
Sender Films and Big UP Productions are bringing audiences a mind-blowing, palm-sweating pump-fest of climbing flicks for the 6th annual REEL ROCK Film Tour. They've gathered the wildest climbing stories from around the globe: The legendary race for The Nose speed record; A nine year old bouldering prodigy; Tommy Caldwell's efforts on the hardest big wall free climb; A crazed high-lining champion; The most insane ice climbing action ever and more. It's all part of the cinematic tour de force that is REEL ROCK VI.
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The Dura Dura
Chris Sharma has been the "king" of sport climbing for 15 years, and has created a mecca for hard routes near his home in Catalunya, Spain. Now, the Czech wunderkind, 19 year old Adam Ondra, has come to Sharma's home turf to take the torch. Sharma and Ondra battle to establish the world's first 5.15c, while Sasha DiGiulian and Daila Ojeda shred women's standards with strong ascents of their own. |
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The Shark's Fin
Legendary alpinist Conrad Anker nurtured a 20 year obsession with The Shark's Fin, a spectacular unclimbed granite buttress on the 6,310 meter Mt. Meru, in India. In 2008 Anker, with Jimmy Chin and Renan Ozturk, endured a grueling 18 day push to get within hundreds of feet of the summit, only to be turned back. Three years later, the trio makes tough decision to return, despite Anker's deep family ties, and Ozturk's ski accident just six months before the trip, which resulted in a fractured skull, a broken neck, and serious doubts about going back.. |
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The
Wide Boys
American offwidth climbing has spawned a counter-culture of rough and tumble characters who aren't afraid to bleed their way up a route. So when two proper British lads, Tom Randall and Pete Whittaker, crossed the pond to eat up the gnarliest wide cracks in the West -- including the first ascent of the world's hardest offwidth known as Century Crack -- it came as quite a shock. |
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Honnold 3.0
Alex Honnold has become known as the boldest soloist of his generation. In this dangerous game, how does he balance pure ambition with self-preservation? From highball boulder first ascents to 5.13 free solos, from far-flung trad climbing adventures, to speed records on The Nose, Honnold wrestles with this question in preparation for his biggest adventure yet - the Yosemite Triple. In under 19 hours he climbs Mt. Watkins, El Cap, and Half Dome, 95% of it free solo.. |
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The 14th annual New Paltz climbing film festival
will be an exciting weekend of climbing adventure with climbing
clinics, slide show, “Gunk Grunt” pull-up contest,
sponsor demos, Stewardship award, great prizes and featuring
the 2012 REEL Rock Tour. |
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New Paltz Climbing Film Festival is Hosted by:
Special thanks to our 2012 sponsors:
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If your city is not listed, click
here to visit the Reel Rock tour calendar |
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