European Outdoor Film Tour 13/14
Press Release / 23.08.2013
They live life on the edge: climbing dizzying heights, plummeting off cliffs and down mountains, cycling endless miles. What's the one thing they have in common? A mutual obsession to turn the impossible into reality ...
Beachcombing and surfing on the Arctic coast. A solitary mountain-bike road trip in search of unconquered summits. And climbing the hardest off-width crack in the world. A sneak preview of the EOFT's 2013/14 film programme.
More movies will be announced soon: Stay tuned!
The European Outdoor Film Tour (E.O.F.T.) is back with even more dates in nine European countries. The two hour, high octane programme featuring the most exciting adventure films of the year.
Highlights include the award-winning, surf/environmental documentary "North of the Sun". Picture a small hut, sheltered under the rocks on a lonely beach in the Arctic Circle that's not seen sunlight for more than two months. Built entirely from flotsam and jetsam, it's home to Norwegian surfers Inge Wegge and Jørn Nyseth Ranum. In search of the North Atlantic's best waves, the pair spend nine months cut off from civilisation - no internet, no commitments, no stress.
Accessible only on foot, the bay's location remains a secret - "Everyone should find their own paradise". But nowhere's perfect. It so cold even their olive oil freezes and they have to boil water to defrost their surf boots. Winter becomes an endless quest to collect, saw and chop driftwood to stoke their recycled oildrum stove. But that's not all the ocean washes up on the shore - and so begins their campaign to clean up their beach and stop paradise turning into a rubbish dump.
The American alpinist Kyle Dempster has chosen a far less secret but almost as isolated location for his road trip adventure, "The Road from Karakol". Starting from Karakol in Kirgysistan with only a camera as a companion, he sets out on bike to climb the country's last unconquered peaks. Those are the facts. As for the rest? Only uncut memories - abandoned roads, ghost towns and an obligatory boozy session with the Kyrgyz military police. Between roaring rivers and huge mountain vistas, he comes to the conclusion that every adventure has its light and dark moments - and that we use the word "suffering" too frivolously.
The "Wide Boyz" Tom Randall and Pete Whittaker would agree. The two British climbers are self-taught experts in strange sub-culture of offwidth-climbing - the most brutal form of crack climbing ("the size where nothing fits"). To the great astonishment of U.S. locals - they claim the first ascent of the world's toughest offwidth route in Moab (Utah). Their secret weapon? Two years spent training on a perfect replica of Century Crack, built in Tom's basement.
For the all the latest news, visit http://www.eoft.eu/programme-1314
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