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FILMS
Acopan
Saturday, February 28, 7:30 pm
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Centennial Theatre
Germany, 2008, 43 min
Directed by Jochen Schmoll
www.drehxtrem.de
In a remote region of Southern Venezuela towers the table mountain Acopan Tepui with its 700 m steep rock face dropping off vertically into the rainforest. Inaccessible and unexplored, this North face is the dream goal for the professional climber Stefan Glowacz, climbing legend Kurt Albert, Holger Heuber and the Venezuelan climbing star Ivan Calderon. trailer
As soon as they arrive to the base camp at the foot of the mountain, rain starts to fall – as predicted by the locals. For many days, the men keep on struggling up the mountain in the pouring rain, climbing step by step through the most difficult overhanging wall. The rock is more fragile than they had expected and their progress is slow. They have hauled up enough food and water for four days and nights, but they cannot take longer for breaking through the last 150 meters of the wall. Will the four climbers be the first humans standing on the summit of the Acopan?
Director Jochen Schmoll
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