Skiing Everest

Directed by Les Guthman and Mike Marolt
Produced by Mike Marolt
Les Guthman
Kenny Fields
Written by Les Guthman
Starring Mike Marolt
Steve Marolt
John Callahan
Jim Gile
Hans Kammerlander
Chris Davenport
Laura Bokas
Mark Newcomb
Music by Richard Horowitz
Cinematography Mike Marolt
Cherie Silvera
Edited by Les Guthman
Distributed by Montezuma Basin Productions
Cinetic Media
Release dates
  • January 10, 2009 (2009-01-10)
Running time
 82 minutes
Country United States
Language English

Skiing Everest is an American adventure documentary directed by Les Guthman and Mike Marolt; written by Les Guthman, and featuring high-altitude skiers Mike Marolt, Steve Marolt, John Callaghan, Jim Gile, Hans Kammerlander, Chris Davenport, Laura Bakos, Mark Newcomb. The film also features Fredrik Ericsson, who died skiing on K2 in 2010.[1]

Filmed by Mike Marolt over ten years, Skiing Everest tells the story of a group of close friends, led by Marolt and his twin brother Steve, who grew up in Aspen, Colorado, and went on to become the first skiers from the Western Hemisphere to ski from above 8,000 meters (26,247 ft.) when they skied from the summit of Shisha Pangma in Tibet in 2000,[2] and then challenged the highest slopes in the world on Mount Everest and Cho Oyu.[3]

The film follows the Marolts and their childhood friends Jim Gile, and John Callahan, who was an Olympic cross-country skier,[4] on skiing expeditions into the death zone above 26,000 ft., without using bottled oxygen. At the top of the world, they lock into their skis and challenge the most dangerous slopes in the world.

Skiing Everest also tells the history of high-altitude skiing, dating back to the 1930s, and includes interviews with Hans Kammerlander, who was the first to ski from the summit of Everest;[5] Laura Bakos, the first woman to ski from the summit of an 8,000 m. peak;[6] and Chris Davenport, the two-time world extreme skiing champion,[7] who is an avid ski mountaineer as well. And it tells the Marolts' personal story: the sons of U.S. Olympic skier Max Marolt,[8] who grew up in Aspen, before it became an internationally famous ski destination and who took to skiing in the hope of escaping what was an isolated, decaying former mining town.

Skiing Everest was shown in film festivals[9] and theaters in 2009-2011[10][11] and was bought by ESPN in July 2011 for broadcast in the United States and Europe. It debuted on ESPN Classic in November 2011 with six primetime broadcasts over the weekend of November 18–20.[12]

Skiing Everest was converted from 2D to 3D in 2012 by Blue Hemisphere 3D. It will premiere in December 2012 and be released in theaters and on 3D Blu-ray Disc in January 2013.

See also

References

  1. ↑ http://sports.espn.go.com/action/freeskiing/news/story?id=5443216
  2. ↑ First North Americans Ski Shishapangma
  3. ↑ Nick Paumgarten. "Twin Freaks". Outside.
  4. ↑ John Callahan biography and Olympic results
  5. ↑ http://www.k2news.com/kammerlander.htm
  6. ↑ SKi8000 expedition 2004: History
  7. ↑ Chris Davenport, storyteller
  8. ↑ http://www.aspensnowmassshrines.com/index.php?The-Max-Marolt-Statue-Aspen-Mountain
  9. ↑ Jon Maletz (September 27, 2009). "Aspen man's 'High Turns' goes deeper". Aspen Times. Retrieved July 29, 2009.
  10. ↑ Skiing Everest Screenings
  11. ↑ TEN YEARS IN THE MAKING, "SKIING EVEREST" EXPERTLY EDGES TO EARTH IN CHICAGO ON DECEMBER 2 Century Center Cinema, 7pm
  12. ↑ Skiing Everest Weekend on ESPN Classic
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