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Pete Athans and Films (print program)
Saturday, November 8, 8 p.m.
Eric HarvieMargaret
Greenham
ERIC HARVIE THEATRE - Live Performance
8:00 p.m.
A veteran mountaineer who has reached the highest point on earth seven times will highlighted this evening’s presentation at the Banff Mountain Film Festival.
Pete Athans, known in some circles as “Mr. Everest”,
spoke in the Eric Harvie Theatre tonight, Saturday, November 8, at 8 p.m.
Mountaineer and cinematographer Pete Athans has led 15 Everest expeditions since 1985. He has attempted five different routes from the Tibetan and Nepalese sides of the mountain, and has attained the summit seven times — more than any other climber not of Sherpa descent.
Athans’ accomplishments on other peaks are equally impressive – including Lhotse, Nuptse, Makalu, Manaslu, K2, Annapurna South, Cho Oyu, Ama Dablam, Pumori, and most recently the eastern Himalayas.
The 2003 Banff Mountain Film Festival featured two films to which Pete Athans has contributed,
"National Geographic Television: Surviving Everest" and "The Dark Side of Everest".
9:30 p.m.
Touching the Void
(UK, 2003, 106’)
Director: Kevin MacDonald
Producer: John Smithson
Production Co.: Darlow Smithson Productions, Film Four and the Film Council
Based on Joe Simpson’s international bestseller, Touching the Void documents one of the most extraordinary true stories of adventure and survival of our
time. Made by Oscar-winning director Kevin Macdonald, the film recounts a fateful climb Joe Simpson and his mountaineering partner, Simon Yates,
undertook in the Peruvian Andes in 1985. This feature documentary combines dramatic reconstruction of the climb, and interviews with the two climbers
nearly killed on the 21,000-foot Siula Grande.
MARGARET GREENHAM THEATRE
8:00 p.m.
Simulcast of guest speaker Pete Athans
9:25 p.m.
Rubicon, or People from the Other Side of the Earth - A Rock
Ballad
(Russia, 2003, 29’) NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE
Director: Andrey Kim (in person)
Producer: Tatyana Zapolskaya
In May 2002, a team of Russian rock climbers
established a new route on the vertical wall of Great Sail Peak
on Baffin Island, Canada. This is their unique account of the
expedition.
9:57 p.m. Edge Dancing – A Journey across Siberia (USA, 2003, 13’) WORLD PREMIERE Director/Producer: Joy Tessman (in person) This is a story about two young kayaker-photographers whose nations had conditioned them to be enemies, but who came to depend on each other at the extreme edges of the disintegrating Soviet Union.
10:13 p.m. Mountain Gorilla – Pushing the Boundaries for Conservation (South Africa, 2003, 32’) Director: Bruce Davidson Producers: Bruce Davidson, François Franck, Annette Lanjouw This documentary highlights the plight of the mountain gorilla, and the role of the International Gorilla Conservation Programme in transboundary preservation efforts.
10:48 p.m. Stefania Belmondo (USA, 2003, 15’) CANADIAN PREMIERE Director/Producer: Bud Greenspan (in person) In 1992, Stefania Belmondo became the first Italian woman to win an Olympic gold medal in cross-country skiing. Over the years, she won six more Olympic medals, none of them gold. The Salt Lake City games, her fifth Olympics, would be her last chance to win gold.
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