More events news: from September 11th to 23rd, Vue cinemas will be hosting the first nationwide adventure film festival. It combines highlights of previous mountain film festivals, with plenty of climbing, BASE jumping, slacklining, snowboarding, kayaking, and any other high adrenalin action you can think of. Eighteen cinemas will be showing a full five night programme of films, divided into the categories: Endurance, Storm Force, Ocean, High Altitude and On The Edge. And in case none of those are anywhere near you, there'll be a one-night highlights screening at another 36 cinemas around the country. You can check whether your local cinema is one of them here.
Here's a short selection of adrenalin on offer:
- Highliner - From free climbing to slacklining, Dean Potter returns to the Yosemite national park to try out his new, and precarious, sport with thousands of feet of air beneath him. Anyone with vertigo should stay well away.
- Alone Across Australia - Join John Muir on his 128 day, 2,500 km journey across the Outback. He didn't have any company at the time, but as he filmed the odyssey himself, we can pay his adventure a belated visit.
- Masters of Stone V - Welcome to another round of death-defying stunts ... without any tricks of the camera. If Highliner didn't terrify you enough, you can watch Dean Potter hanging from his finger-tips 3000 feet off the ground with no rope or safety gear. World record freefalling, slacklining, and Arctic BASE jumping are also part of the mix.
- Cannibals and Crampons - New Guinea isn't the first place you'd associate with snow-capped summits, but actually there's a 15,400 foot peak hidden away in the jungle. Mark Anstice and Bruce Parry take on its unscaled face.
- Falling - Climbers aren't the only ones who take on gravity; in this short film it's the turn of kayakers Hayden Glatte and Lars Holbek, who ride the waterfalls of central Mexico.
There are several films in each of the categories, so it's worth a peep at the Film Festival's website for further details. If surfing, sea kayaking, skiing or snowboarding is your thing, there's plenty of that on offer as well.
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