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Ski the 14ers

Chris Davenport has a dream: to ski all of Colorado’s 14,000-foot peaks in a single winter. Veteran mountaineer Lou Dawson agrees to help. But it took Dawson thirteen years to ski every 14er in Colorado. Davenport has just six months to bag all fifty-four peaks.

Parking Garage: Beyond the Limit

A spoof of the Discovery Channel Show, Everest: Beyond the Limit, created after an incident when the director realized he was more than a little out of breath after climbing only four flights of stairs to the top of a parking garage to fetch his car.

Ascending The Giants

For a pair of arborist-adventurers, climbing isn’t just something to do on a cliff. A journey into the canopy of Washington’s Olympic National Park.

Caribbean

One week in the Caribbean during an Atlantic Ocean hurricane swell. Local surfers share some tube time and fun in the sun.

Dying for Everest

Mark Ingles became the first double amputee to summit Mt. Everest. However, he was greeted not with a hero’s welcome but with media condemnation when it became known that he had passed Briton David Sharp near the summit and left him to die.

Finding Balance

A short film that explores the relationship between the outdoors and the creative energy that fuels Lucas Reynolds’s music.

The Fatal Game

After summitting Mt. Everest in 1994, Kiwi guide Mark Whetu and his client Mike Rheinberger are forced to bivouac at 28,800 feet. The next day they try to descend but Rheinberger is stricken with cerebral edema and Whetu must decide whether to stay with his friend on the mountain or save his own life.