Keswick Mountain Film Festival

Boot brand Hi-Tec is supporting the 2010 Keswick Mountain Film Festival on 25-28 February which is showing over 30 films over three days including a number of UK premieres.


Premieres include 'Beneath Everest, Nepal Reborn' - a Nepali film charting the road to becoming a republic - 'Narcisco' a prize-winning film from Italy, and 'Africa Trek' an account of an inspirational journey across Africa from Cape of Good Hope to Israel.

The Africa Trek movie features Hi-Tec Global Ambassadors Alexandre - above - and Sonia Poussin who embarked on their adventurous walk the length of Africa entirely on foot, from the Cape of Good Hope to the Sea of Galilee, completely alone and armed with two pairs of Hi-Tec boots.

During the three-year trek along the Great Rift Valley of East Africa, they aimed to symbolically retrace the passage of early man, from Australopithecus to Modern Man.

Without sponsors or support team and sharing the poverty of their hosts, they spoke of the generosity and enthusiasm of the men and women who populate the African continent. Day after day, Alexandre and Sonia became a bit more African themselves. In their books, Africa Trek I and II and III, they recount the first seven thousand kilometers up to Mount Kilimanjaro and beyond to the Sea of Galilee.

On the 26th February 19:00 at The Alhambra, St John's St Keswick, Alexandre will be joining the guests of the festival to talk, in depth, about his African experience which has already spawned three books and a 12-episode TV series.

Director Jan Dunn and script-writer Tony Grisoni will also be there, showing a number of their films and talking and answering questions. And there will be a silent film with two musicians playing along, the Gardner sisters from Edinburgh.

Lots more besides. For more information on the Keswick Mountain Film Festival see www.keswickfilmfestival.org and for more about Hi-Tec and Africa Trek see  www.hi-tec.com.