Radical Reels film tour is part of ‘Day of Adventure’ at Maryville College

MARYVILLE – Faster, steeper, higher, deeper – the Banff Mountain Film Festival’s Radical Reels Tour is coming to Maryville College, hosted by the Clayton Center for the Arts.

High-adrenaline outdoor sport films will be screened at 7:30 p.m. Sept. 25 in the College’s Alumni Gym.  Admission is $5 at the door.

Hurtle down steep untouched powder.  Feel the cold spray of stomach-dropping kayak first descents.  Fly high with the world’s wildest BASE jumpers and much more in extreme mountain sports.

Growing out of the famous Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour, Radical Reels screens the best in action sports filmmaking, audience-tested and programmed for maximum excitement.

Nine films to be shown

Representatives from the Banff Centre in Canada will be here to present the short films and give away outdoor gear.

Cliff Notes explores the beautiful but deadly cliff-jumping culture in North Vancouver’s Lynn Valley.  The locals seem to know the locations, the lines and the safe times to jump.  Everyone else is terrified – or at least they should be because this is seriously deadly.

Something Stronger takes viewers on a journey to the frontier of snowkiting with the world’s elite riders as they explore the vast snow deserts of Norway, the windblown peaks of the Alps and the bottomless powder of North America.

Play Gravity features amazing freeriding sequences from Alaska and breathtaking paragliding acrobatics that show where snowboarder Ueli Kestenholz and paragliding pilot Mathias Roten got their basic skills for speedriding.  Together these athletes take freeriding into a new dimension, making impossible lines rideable by simply flying over massive cliffs and seracs.

Public invited to join the adventure

To set the tone for the film series, the public is invited to experience a little adventure of their own.  Mountain Challenge, an organization that provides high-quality, safe outdoor experiences on the Maryville College campus, will be assisting participants on its 60-foot climbing tower and climbing cave from 3 until 6 p.m.

Participants are also welcome to purchase dinner at Pearsons Hall before Radical Reels begins at 7:30 p.m.

For more information about the 2009 Radical Reels Tour, please visit www.radicalreels.com.

Introductory video for the 2009 Radical Reels tour from Mountain Culture at The Banff Centre in Banff, Alberta.