The Reel Rock 7 film tour, which has been selling out theaters from coast to coast during its Fall 2012 nationwide tour, will be coming to Chattanooga on Friday, Feb. 15 at 6:30 p.m. at the UC Auditorium on the University of Tennessee-Chattanooga campus. The event is a benefit for the Southeastern Climbers Coalition.
This event will kick off a run of seven shows in seven days throughout the Southeast partnering with rock climbing groups in each city. Here are the remaining events:
-- Huntsville, AL, on Saturday, Feb. 16 at 6:30 p.m. at the Chan Auditorium on the University of Alabama-Huntsville campus. The event is a benefit for the Southeastern Climbers Coalition.
-- to Lexington, KY, on Sunday, Feb. 17 at 5:30 p.m. at the Kentucky Theater. The event is a benefit for the Red River Gorge Climbers Coalition.
-- Knoxville, TN, on Monday, Feb. 18 at 6:30 p.m. at the UC Auditorium on the University of Tennessee-Knoxville campus. The event is a co-benefit for the Eastern Tennessee Climbers Coalition and the University of Tennessee Outdoor Program.
-- Birmingham, AL, on Tuesday, Feb. 19 at 6:30 p.m. at The Edge 12 cinemas. The event is a benefit for the Southeastern Climbers Coalition.
-- Chapel Hill, NC, on Wednesday, Feb. 20 at 6:30 p.m. at the Varsity Theatre. The event is sponsored by the Carolina Climbers Coalition.
-- Charlotte, NC, on Thursday, Feb. 21 at 6:30 p.m. at the UNC Charlotte Center City Auditorium. The event is a sponsored by the Carolina Climbers Coalition, which will kick off the event with a rock climbing expo in the Center City lobby beginning at 5:30 p.m.
The seventh annual Reel Rock Film Tour brings the best in climbing and adventure films to local audiences across the globe, with more than 65,000 attending nearly 300 shows worldwide during the 2011 tour. The 2012 tour has already sold out dozens of shows both in the U.S. and abroad.
Reel Rock 7 features four films. Leading off will be Dura, Dura, featuring Chris Sharma, who has been the king of sport climbing for the past 15 years and has created a mecca for hard routes near his home in Catalunya, Spain. But now, the Czech wunderkind, 19-year-old Adam Ondra, has come to Sharmas home turf to take the torch. Sharma and Ondra battle to establish the worlds first 5.15c route, while Sasha DiGiulian and Daila Ojeda shred womens standards with strong ascents of their own.
The Sharks Fin then chronicles legendary alpinist Conrad Ankers 20-year obsession with The Sharks Fin, a spectacular unclimbed granite buttress on the 6,310-meter Mount Meru in Indian. In 2008, Anker, with Jimmy Chin and Renan Ozturk, endured a grueling 18-day push to within hundreds of feet of the summit only to be turned back. Three years later, the trio makes a tough decision to return in an attempt to claim one of climbings elusive first ascents.
American off-width climbing has spawned a counter-culture of rough and tumble characters who arent afraid to bleed their way up a route. In Wide Boys, the third film, two proper British lads, Tom Randall and Pete Whittaker, cross the pond to eat up the gnarliest wide cracks in the West, including the first ascent of the worlds hardest off-width known as Century Crack.
The event concludes with Honnold 3.0, featuring Alex Honnold, who has become known as the boldest solo climber of his generation. In this dangerous game, Honnold balances pure ambition with self-preservation as he wrestles with preparation for perhaps his biggest adventure yet the Yosemite Triple. In under 19 hours, Honnold climbs Mount Watkins, El Capitan and Half Dome, almost all of it free solo.
Tickets to all events are $12 in advance online at imathlte.com/events/reelrock7. Tickets at the door the night of the shows will be $15.
The Southeastern Climbers Coalition is a non-profit organization dedicated to preserving climbing access in the Southeast. SCC members and volunteers are climbers from Tennessee, Alabama, Georgia, North and South Carolina, Florida, Arkansas and elsewhere who have joined forces to preserve access to climbing areas in those regions. For more information, go to seclimbers.org.
The mission of the Red River Gorge Climbers Coalition is to ensure open, public access to ample, quality outdoor rock climbing opportunities to meet the needs of current and future climbers and to encourage the conservation of the natural environment on publicly managed and privately owned land by protecting, promoting and ensuring responsible climbing. Of immediate concern is the maintenance and preservation of the Red River Gorge, one of the nations finest rock climbing areas. For more information, go to rrgcc.org.
The Carolina Climbers Coalition is non-profit organization founded in 1995 to preserve and protect the areas climbing opportunities. In 2005, the role of the CCC expanded to include that of landowner and advocate, as the organization purchased Laurel Knob, one of the largest cliffs in the Southeast. The CCC continues to work with local, state and federal agencies to preserve and protect climbing privileges. For more information, go to carolinaclimbers.org.
For more information about Reel Rock 7, or to view the trailer, go to reelrocktour.com.
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For more information about the event, contact promoter Garry Harrington at gharrington3165@hotmail.com or 603-209-5010.
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