This weekend's Kendal Mountain festival is one of the highlights of the year for outdoor adventure sports lovers, and showcases films from enthusiasts of all disciplines, from ice-climbing to extreme skiing. Watch highlights from the event below
• Click here to see an exclusive extract from the film Autana
This weekend the Kendal Mountain festival (15-18 November) will draw thousands of outdoor adventurers, from elite athletes to every-day enthusiasts, to the Lake District for the biggest event of its kind in the world.
Alongside talks by medal-winning Olympic triathletes the Brownlee brothers, practical workshops and free beer, at the heart of the event is the Mountain film festival, which showcases 60 films, including several premieres.
The selection includes some of the year's most anticipated and feted extreme sports movies. Catch the world premiere of Wide Boyz, a documentary following Sheffield climbers Tom Randall and Pete Whittaker's ascent of one of the widest,...
• Click here to see an exclusive extract from the film Autana
This weekend the Kendal Mountain festival (15-18 November) will draw thousands of outdoor adventurers, from elite athletes to every-day enthusiasts, to the Lake District for the biggest event of its kind in the world.
Alongside talks by medal-winning Olympic triathletes the Brownlee brothers, practical workshops and free beer, at the heart of the event is the Mountain film festival, which showcases 60 films, including several premieres.
The selection includes some of the year's most anticipated and feted extreme sports movies. Catch the world premiere of Wide Boyz, a documentary following Sheffield climbers Tom Randall and Pete Whittaker's ascent of one of the widest,...
- 11/13/2012
- by Georgia Brown
- The Guardian - Film News
Leo Houlding and guest attending "The Wildest Dream" UK premiere at the BFI Imax in London.Photo copyright by Solarpix / PR Photos. Maryam d'Abo attending "The Wildest Dream" UK premiere at the BFI Imax in London.Photo copyright by Solarpix / PR Photos. Leo Houlding attending "The Wildest Dream" UK premiere at the BFI Imax in London.Photo copyright by Solarpix / PR Photos. Leo Houlding and guest attending "The Wildest Dream" UK premiere at the BFI Imax in London.Photo copyright by Solarpix / PR Photos. Anthony Geffen attending "The Wildest Dream" UK premiere at the BFI Imax in London.Photo copyright by Solarpix / PR Photos. 09/21/2010 - Maryam d'Abo - "The Wildest Dream" UK Premiere -...
- 9/24/2010
- by James Wray
- Monsters and Critics
“Why do you want to climb Mount Everest?” “Because it’s There”.
For those that don’t know their history, George Mallory was a British mountaineer who took part in the first three British expeditions to Mount Everest in the early 1920s and who was last seen just a few hundred metres from the summit. This was 30 years before Hillary and Tenzing conquered it for the first recorded time.
The Wildest Dream: Conquest of Everest is a truly awe-inspiring documentary about the final venture to conquer Mount Everest by the climber George Mallory who never returned from his last attempt to scale it and whose body was never found until 1999. The man who found Mallory’s body, Conrad Anker, goes on his own journey to attempt the same recorded route to see if Mallory did actually reach the summit or whether he died trying as previously thought.
The film...
For those that don’t know their history, George Mallory was a British mountaineer who took part in the first three British expeditions to Mount Everest in the early 1920s and who was last seen just a few hundred metres from the summit. This was 30 years before Hillary and Tenzing conquered it for the first recorded time.
The Wildest Dream: Conquest of Everest is a truly awe-inspiring documentary about the final venture to conquer Mount Everest by the climber George Mallory who never returned from his last attempt to scale it and whose body was never found until 1999. The man who found Mallory’s body, Conrad Anker, goes on his own journey to attempt the same recorded route to see if Mallory did actually reach the summit or whether he died trying as previously thought.
The film...
- 9/20/2010
- by Gary Phillips
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
We’ve been given an exclusive peek at the latest trailer for The Wildest Dream, Anthony Geffen’s feature documentary retracing the climb undertaken by British explorer George Mallory in his attempt to be the first man to climb Mount Everest.
The trailer shows off the film’s stunning vistas and features the voices of Liam Neeson, Ralph Fiennes, Alan Rickman and Natasha Richardson in her final film role.
Here’s the synopsis,
The Wildest Dream is a story of obsession and breathtaking adventure, told through the explorer’s poignant and evocative correspondence with his wife and using previously unseen photos and archive footage. Anker and British rock-climbing prodigy Leo Houlding embark on their own quest to conquer Everest, following the original North East Ridge route taken by Mallory in 1924 to discover whether he and fellow climber Andrew “Sandy” Irvine could have reached the summit. In their attempt they must...
The trailer shows off the film’s stunning vistas and features the voices of Liam Neeson, Ralph Fiennes, Alan Rickman and Natasha Richardson in her final film role.
Here’s the synopsis,
The Wildest Dream is a story of obsession and breathtaking adventure, told through the explorer’s poignant and evocative correspondence with his wife and using previously unseen photos and archive footage. Anker and British rock-climbing prodigy Leo Houlding embark on their own quest to conquer Everest, following the original North East Ridge route taken by Mallory in 1924 to discover whether he and fellow climber Andrew “Sandy” Irvine could have reached the summit. In their attempt they must...
- 9/17/2010
- by Jon Lyus
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
The Wildest Dream, a docudrama set for September release, examines enduring exploration puzzle – but mystery remains
In so many ways, it was a peculiarly British expedition to Everest – with its four cases of Montebello champagne, 60 tins of quail and foie gras, 70 porters, 300 animals, and the climbers wearing hobnailed boots and gabardine jackets.
But, 86 years on, the mystery remains. Did the obsessed aesthete George Mallory and his colleague Sandy Irvine make it to the top and become the first people to conquer the world's highest and most formidable peak?
A documentary-drama, The Wildest Dream, to be released in cinemas in September, examines one of the most enduring and possibly unanswerable of exploration mysteries. While it does not offer a conclusion, it does throw up some fascinating new angles, and shows that the pair could have made it to the top.
The film's director and producer, Anthony Geffen, said: "What is great...
In so many ways, it was a peculiarly British expedition to Everest – with its four cases of Montebello champagne, 60 tins of quail and foie gras, 70 porters, 300 animals, and the climbers wearing hobnailed boots and gabardine jackets.
But, 86 years on, the mystery remains. Did the obsessed aesthete George Mallory and his colleague Sandy Irvine make it to the top and become the first people to conquer the world's highest and most formidable peak?
A documentary-drama, The Wildest Dream, to be released in cinemas in September, examines one of the most enduring and possibly unanswerable of exploration mysteries. While it does not offer a conclusion, it does throw up some fascinating new angles, and shows that the pair could have made it to the top.
The film's director and producer, Anthony Geffen, said: "What is great...
- 8/27/2010
- by Mark Brown
- The Guardian - Film News
Last night I went to a press screening of National Geographic Entertainment's The Wildest Dream: Conquest of Everest, a film by Anthony Geffen. In 93 minutes that sometimes feels much longer, Geffen tells the story of George Mallory, the British explorer who disappeared on his quest to be the first to reach the summit of Mt. Everest in 1924, and American mountaineer Conrad Anker, who discovered Mallory's body in Mt. Everest's 'death zone' in 1999 and set off to determine whether it would have been possible for Mallory to reach the summit. Anker and his partner, young British climbing prodigy Leo Houlding, attempt parts of the climb in the same type of gabardine outerwear and hobnail boots that Mallory and his partner Andrew Sandy Irvine wore when Mt. Everest claimed their lives many decades before. In the film's climax, Anker and Houlding must climb the notorious "Second Step," the sheer cliff...
- 5/20/2010
- IrishCentral
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