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Winner of Joint Winner of the 2013 Sheffield Adventure Film Festival Best Climbing Film Award
(For full list of results click here)
It's like ultimate fighting with a rock. The world of offwidth crack climbing is a strange sub-culture rumoured to be dominated by knuckle-dragging, bar-brawling dirt-bags! The climbing is tough, painful and bloody and there are hardly any routes in the UK. Undeterred, two British climbers, Pete Whittaker and Tom Randall, complete a brutal two-year training regime (mostly spent hanging upside down in their Sheffield basement) before embarking on an audacious tour of the USA and a first ascent of the world's hardest off-width - Century Crack. (If you miss this screening, there's a chance to see the Reel Rock shorter edit as part of Climb Films 1).
(Note - renowned adventure photographer Alex Ekins will be premiering his never-before-seen photographs of the Century Crack attempt in the Showroom Workstation next door to the cinema as part of our MyOutdoors photo exhibition).
Duration: 48 mins
Nationality: British
Year: 2012
Directed By: Paul Diffley & Chris Alstrin
Produced by Hotaches Productions
Website: hotaches.com
Facebook: http://facebook.com/hotaches
Twitter: @hotaches
Previous Awards: Best Climbing Film at Kendal, People’s Choice at Kendal
Showing as part of: Climb Films 4
