REEL
ROCK FILM TOUR RETURNS TO BOISE SEPTEMBER 28, 2007
2ND
ANNUAL TOUR TO FEATURE THE NEW FILM
KING
LINES:
CHRIS SHARMA’S SEARCH FOR THE PLANET’S GREATEST CLIMBS
&
COMMITTED:
FEATURING HARD AND DANGEROUS BRITISH CLIMBING
Reel
Rock 2
Date:
Friday
September 28,2007
Location:
Boise
State University -Special Events Center
Time:
Doors
open at 6:30PM
Show Starts at 7:00
PM
Tickets:
$6.00
in advance at the Boise State Outdoor Program
$8.00
at the door
Event
Info:
426-1946
Event
Hosted by The Boise State Outdoor Program
Adopt
a Crag
Date:
Saturday
September 29,2007
Location:
Boise
Black Cliffs
Meeting
Time: 10:00
AM at the Boise State Outdoor Program
Event
Hosted by Boise Climbers Alliance and the Boise State Outdoor Program
FILM
DESCRIPTIONS:
This
year’s Reel Rock Film Tour highlights King
Lines: Chris Sharma’s Search for the Planet’s Greatest Climbs,
which will take audiences globetrotting alongside Chris Sharma—the 25-year old
climbing phenomenon—as he discovers and climbs the world’s most outrageously
difficult and beautiful rock climbing formations. The 2007 Reel Rock Film Tour will travel to 60 cities
throughout North America and be viewed by an estimated 20,000 climbers and
adrenaline enthusiasts. The 2007 Reel Rock Tour is presented by Windstopper®,
and is additionally sponsored by Climbing
Magazine, Urban Climber, Prana, Evolv,
Petzl and Osprey.
The
opening act for King Lines is a
highlight showing of Committed, a new
film documenting the legendary British appetite for hard and dangerous rock
climbing, by filmmakers Dave Brown and Paul Diffley of Hot Aches.
About
Chris Sharma’s King Lines
Chris
Sharma is undoubtedly the strongest and most famous rock climber of his time.
For the past decade, he has consistently redefined the boundaries of his sport,
and, at 25 years old, the Santa Cruz, California, native embarked on a new quest
to seek the planet’s greatest uncharted climbs. His first stop, in September
2006, was off the coast of Mallorca, Spain, where, without a rope, he climbed a
spectacular route on a massive rock arch surrounded by the Mediterranean Sea.
This deep water solo tested Sharma time and time again over the course of
several visits. When interviewed
during filming in Mallorca, Sharma deemed the route, which he named Es
Pontas, more challenging than all the climbs he’d ever done.
“What
makes this climb so difficult is that you’re upside down, you’re hanging on
your arms and on your fingertips the whole time,” Sharma said. “On top of
that the wall is absolutely blank for seven feet. You have to actually just leap
through the air and stick another hold.”
That critical hold is just the size of three of Sharma’s fingers, and
that explosive upward leap, on the underbelly of a steep overhang, is, Sharma
said, “a pure, all-four-points, cut-loose dyno. I’ve probably tried that
move a hundred times.” Every
time he missed the one hand-sized pocket, he plummeted 50 feet into the sea
below. A video clip of Sharma’s effort on Es Pontas can be seen on the
filmmakers’ websites, www.senderfilms.com
or www.bigupproductions.com.
Sharma’s
spectacular first ascent of Es Pontas
is just one of the highlights of Chris
Sharma’s King Lines. Film
crews follow Sharma to remote jungle plateaus of Venezuela; to stunning,
untouched limestone walls of France’s Gorge du Verdon; to the sea cliffs of
Kalymnos in Greece, as well as to Nevada, where Sharma works on a new, difficult
breakthrough route. Along the way, Sharma is joined by fellow climbers, BASE
jumpers and other adventure junkies, and the film reveals the compellingly
private and focused personality of the man on the cutting edge of his amazing
sport.
Chris
Sharma’s King Lines
is the first full-scale collaboration between leading filmmakers Peter Mortimer
of Sender Films and Josh Lowell of Big UP Productions.
Friends from college, experienced climbers, and award-winning filmmakers,
the duo has pooled their talents, experience and resources to create the new
film. The entire production is being filmed with multiple high-definition
cameras, utilizing cranes, helicopters and state-of-the-art rigging techniques
to best capture Sharma’s incredible skill and accomplishments.