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

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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.

 

 

 

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