The Gunks Climbers' Coalition in generous coproduction with Rock & Snow is proud to screen the Canadian documentary climbing movie Inner Walls.
What: Inner Walls documentary climbing film.
75 mins, in English and French with English subtitles.
Trailer:
https://vimeo.com/1091824309
When: Saturday, October 4. Doors 7:30 pm. Screening at 8:00. Panel discussion / Q & A post-screening.
Where: Rock & Snow Annex (28 Main St, New Paltz)
Who: Special guests for post-screening panel discussion: director Alexandra Elkin, Director of Photography Frederick Breton, and local Gunks climbers Dr. Richard Goldstone and GCC Secretary, Jannette Pazer.
Why: Inner Walls is on the surface about the director, Alexandra Elkin, traveling from Montreal with her filmmaker friends and crew to ascend Yosemite’s El Capitan via the jugging / descent lines on the east side of the buttress. They set out to do this with Alex Honnold’s mother, Dierdre Wolownick, recreating the same ascent Dierdre did on her 70th birthday a few years earlier. Quite young and inexperienced climbers, along the way Alexandra and her cohort learn just enough from generationally older Dierdre and Red Rock Canyon’s Jack Lambert to set off jugging El Cap.
But the real heart of the film is the specific relationship these inexperienced climbers have with their older, experienced mentors raising the more general question pertinent to the Gunks and every other trad climbing area — just what is the mentor-mentee relationship today?
Just over the last decade or so, unprecedented numbers of inexperienced climbers have begun to venture from the gyms to the outdoors. And they are often in search of and in need of experienced climbers to mentor them. But the numbers simply don’t match up, newly perceived issues of liability have infected the traditional mentor-mentee culture, and while both groups want to find a way to forward the path to passing on trad climbing skills person-to-person is far from clear.
The panel discussion includes Gunks mentors Jannette Pazer (who jugged El Cap on that 70th birthday expedition with Dierdre) and Richard Goldstone with the aim of exploring how the mentor-mentee relationship has changed over the courses of their climbing careers and how they, and the younger filmmakers, see how this vital relationship might evolve in the future.
Whether you’re a novice climber or old timer or somewhere in between, come out for the film and the community discussion to follow! Suggested donation $5 to cover the GCC’s event costs.
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