Film
Best of Sheffield Adventure Festival
- Director
- Various
- Certificate
- 15
- Running Time
- 123 mins
A touring, twho hour selection of highlights from this year’s festival, including films about climbing, running and cycling, plus adventures on snow and water.
Here’s the official programme in full:
A Mile an Hour
Dir: Beau Miles / Australia / 17 mins
How about this for a different kind of marathon; Meet Beau, who whilst going about his day, is running one lap an hour for 24hrs around a perfectly mile long block.
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Gravitas
Dir: Sebastian Linda / Germany / 2 mins
Witness the most incredible street workout scenes with the Australian Calisthenic athlete “Simonster”.
Queen Maud Land
Dir: Taylor Keating and Cedar Wright / USA / 27 mins.
Six climbers (including Conrad Anker and Free Solo’s Alex Honnold and Jimmy Chin) fly to the inhospitable Antarctic range to test themselves on frozen big walls and against subzero temperatures. Described as “The film where Alex Honnold actually shows fear!”
Kai Jones
USA / 5 mins.
A 12 year old skier rips some gnarly terrain at Wyoming’s famous Jackson Hole. “How far can I push it before I make my mum scared…”
The Frenchy
Michelle Smith / USA / 14 mins
Eighty- two year old Jaques Houot, who gets after it non-stop on skis, mountain bikes and the cyclocross race circuit, may just have found the fountain of youth.
Ar Gefn y Ddraig (Riding The Dragon)
Huw Erddyn / UK / 56 mins. Subtitled
Huw Jack Brassington’s attempt to complete the hardest 5 day mountain race in the world, The Dragons Back – a whopping 300+ km run down the spine of Wales.
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