[CMCEmail] Skiing Everest!

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TEN YEARS IN THE MAKING, "SKIING EVEREST" EXPERTLY EDGES
TO EARTH IN LOS ANGELES ON NOVEMBER 18












THE TOP OF THE WORLD (October XX, 2010) - An exhilarating documentary about
an elite group of skiers who scale the world's highest mountain, and
challenge its most dangerous slopes, Skiing Everest will screen locally in
limited theatrical release on November 4 at Brentwood 14 (2525 Sand Creek
Rd., Brentwood, CA 94513) and on November 18 at the Rave 18 (6081 Center
Dr.-Howard Hughes Center, Los Angeles, CA 90045), starting at 7:00 p.m. To
view the trailer and for up-to-date screenings, visit www.SkiingEverest.net
<http://www.skiingeverest.net/> .



Filmed by co-director Mike Marolt over ten years, Skiing Everest follows a
group of close friends, led by Marolt and his twin brother Steve, who grew
up in Aspen taking on 14,000-ft. peaks with their father, 1960 Olympic skier
Max Marolt. They would go on to ski the treacherous slopes of Alaska and
the world's highest volcanoes in South America before becoming the first
Americans to ski above 8,000 meters (26,247 ft.), tackling the summit of
Shisha Pangma in Tibet in 2000. This led them to the ultimate challenge -
Mt. Everest - skiing without using supplemental oxygen, without employing
Sherpas to carry their gear or hiring guides to help them up the peaks.



Skiing Everest follows the Marolts and their childhood friends, Jim Gile and
Olympic cross-country skier John Calhoun, in what many people consider the
toughest physical challenge on
Earth - climbing and skiing in the "Death Zone" without using bottled
oxygen, under weather conditions as perilous as the thin air, with hidden
crevasses and 10,000-ft. sheer faces that drop into Nepal and Tibet far
below.



"It is hard to do anything at such altitudes," wrote Forbes adventure
columnist Jim Clash, "where death lurks at every turn, let alone ski and
survive to tell the tale."



Writer and co-director Les Guthman, who produced three of the "Top 20
Adventure Films of All Time" according to Men's Journal magazine, was drawn
to the Marolts' story. "The reason I decided to make Skiing Everest with
Mike was my deep respect for the skiers' approach to these expeditions,
which are magnificent human adventures in the purest sense," says Guthman.
"These guys remind us of what adventure really is, in an era when words and
concepts have become cheap commodities."



The film also tells the history of high-altitude skiing, dating back to the
1930s, and includes interviews with Hans Kammerlander, the first to ski from
the summit of Everest; Laura Bakos, the first woman to ski from the summit
of an 8,000-meter peak, and Chris Davenport, the two-time world extreme
skiing champion and avid ski mountaineer.



Written by Les Guthman, and directed by Mike Marolt and Les Guthman, Skiing
Everest is a production of Montezuma Basin Productions, XPLR Productions and
West Post Digital. The executive producers are Jeanne Andlinger and Jack
Jacobs. The producers are Mike Marolt, Les Guthman and Kenny Fields. The
director of photography is Mike Marolt. The editor is Les Guthman. The
composer is Richard Horowitz.



For more information, visit the website at www.SkiingEverest.net
<http://www.skiingeverest.net/> .



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