Video, Photo and Music Credits
Music
Composer and Music Director/Editor: Caroline Penwarden
Sound Editing and Sound Effects: Dan Cantrell
Musicians:
Caroline Penwarden, electronic beats, harmonium, percussion, bass, guitar
Recliner, musical excerpts
Sheila Bringi, bansuri, voice, harmonium
Aharon Wheels Bolsta, flutes and tabla
Dan Cantrell, musical excerpts
Jason Ditzian, cambodian jews harp, bansuri, nadaswaram, jogi baja
Ajaia Suri, voice and banjo
Luis Maurette, electronic beats, mixing, musical excerpts
Noah Phillips, guitar, bass
David Satori, electronic beats, musical excerpts
Gallery Images:
Bill Stevenson
U.S. Glacier Photos:
Darryl Lloyd
Google Map Wizardry
Steve Sears
Extreme skiers, fearless rock climbers, crazy kayakers – it’s hard to believe the things some people do until you see them for yourself. What motivates someone to strap a couple pieces of fiberglass to their feet and do a front flip off a cornice onto a 14,000 foot glacier? What inspires a person to take a flying leap off a cliff and dare to wait until the last second before pulling the ripcord? What makes someone decide that taking a little plastic kayak over a 30-foot waterfall into raging razor-rocked rapids is a great way to spend a morning?
Or even harder to imagine – what does that extreme skier do without snow, that kayaker without water, or that base jumper on a rock that’s hitting 140 degrees in the globally warmed heat?
Xtreme Green is a show about these athletes and others who push the limits of human endurance, and who understand the importance of the environment that sustains the sports they love to risk their lives doing.
Each episode will explore the lives of these athletes. We’ll see them do their death-defying jobs, and get a real up close and personal understanding of what motivates them, thrills them, scares them, and ultimately inspires them to do it all over again. We’ll also see what they’re doing in their own lives to make a difference in the fight to protect the environment that makes it all possible.
Xtreme Green is a GreenFit production. Look for it to premiere on cable TV and on GreenFit's broadband channel later this year.
High Ambitions in the Himalaya
A long form documentary and Audience Award Winner, Santa Cruz International Cinefestival, from Curt Dowdy (Producer/Director)
John Taske survived a disastrous 1996 Mount Everest expedition that claimed nine lives and was documented in the best-selling book “Into Thin Air.” Having turned back 200 meters before reaching the Everest summit, John feels unfinished business. High Ambitions follows John returning to the unforgiving Himalayan environment with new teammates. Their expedition attempts another mountain in the Everest region named Cho Oyu. It’s one of fourteen prized mountains known as the 8000-meter peaks (with summits above 26,000 feet), all located in the Himalayas. Each climber candidly shares his unfolding experience resulting from oxygen deprivation, extreme cold, and brushes with other teams' tragedies. The climbers, sometimes impassioned and sometimes humbled, discover new personal insights as they quest for one of the world’s highest summits.
Himalayan Extreme Team has been visiting remote locations in Pakistan's unexplored mountain ranges, since 2004. After running a very successful freestyle Pilot Event in 2006, the Team have now had the go ahead to recreate an event on a much larger scale, in the Kaghan Valley area of Northern Pakistan. After last years catastrophic earthquake, Pakistan is looking to a brighter future, boosting local economies through tourism and sports development programs.
Himalayan Extreme 2008 aims to bring together a multitude of nationalities from across the globe, to gather together and compete alongside the cream of Pakistani skiers – a true melting pot of sports personalities and cultures, through whom we can show the world the beauty of the people and mountains of this magnificent country.
Produced by Nasir Malik and his Pakistan-based Walkabout Films.
Karakoram: Biafo Glacier, Hispar Pass
This is a promotional video made to support the film Karakoram: Biafo Glacier, Hispar Pass, made by French filmmaker and mountaineer Pierre Neyret. Please visit Pierre's website for more information.
Courtesy the Clif Bar Save Our Snow Tour
What better way to spend the ski/board season traveling to all our favorite winter playgrounds than in a 1986 veggie oil powered Winnebago? But this road trip is more than just fun.
You’ve probably heard that global warming is threatening the future of skiing, snowboarding and other outdoor winter adventures. Ski seasons are shortening, snowpack is decreasing and ski towns are growing nervous about impending economic disaster.
It’s up to us to take action.
Bruno Collard, mountaineer and expert on the Karakoram region, has created a remarkable database of the history, geography, local cultures and expedition background of this part of Northern Kashmir.
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