Great Outdoors are running a series of films from the Banff film festival in Dublin on the 6th and 7th of April. One film in particular, called Thumbnail (on the 6th, details below), deals with a sea kayaking expedition in Greenland, to climb one of the tallest sea cliffs in the world.
Venue : The Student Centre, University College Dublin.
Date : April 6th and 7th (Two nights), start time 7:30 pm.
Tickets : €15.00 available at Great Outdoors, Chatham St, Dublin 2, - Tel - (01) 6794293
For the full schedule of films, see www.irishmountainfilmfestival.com
\"Thumbnail\"
Spain, 2004, 58 minutes. Directed & produced by Jesús Bosque.
In one of the many fjords on the south coast of Greenland, there is what Europeans have baptized “the Thumbnail” - a granite wall a mile high, the tallest cliff in the world. Cecilia and Roberta, two of today’s best mountain climbers, prepare to ascend. They approach the wall by kayak, paddling for several days through icebergs, passing whales and seals. Arriving at the foot of the cliff, they get ready to climb. They think it will take one week on the wall: climbing, sleeping, working together. If they make it, this route will be the longest new route climbed by women.