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Please join us on January 28th for our first monthly social of 2025! We will be presenting two films from the archives of the National Film Board of Canada. Through this cinematic time travel, we’ll explore the evolution of Alpine adventures and ACC members’ ventures in the 1950s. We’ll also journey with Guy Clarkson as he examines human encroachment in our mountain regions through recreation, resource exploitation, and residential development.

The two movies that will be screened are the following:

Cliff Hangers

Don Mulholland

1950 / 10 Min

Over a gleaming ice field and up steep cliffs of bare rock, the camera follows members of the Alpine Club of Canada. Before they set out we are introduced to the climbers’ basic equipment and learn the uses of rope and ice axe. Excitement mounts as the alpinists leap gaping chasms, inch their way along icy ledges, and drag themselves up what looks like a sheer wall of rock. Arriving breathless at the top, they pause in triumph for a view of the magnificent mountains lying around their vanquished peak.

Shining Mountains – On the Edge

Guy Clarkson

2005 / 47 min

This documentary from the Shining Mountains series asks a hard question: are we loving our mountains to death? In this installment, filmmaker Guy Clarkson examines human encroachment in our mountain regions. Between recreation, resource exploitation and residential development, how much pressure the mountains can withstand? Can we save it before it’s too late?

The films are provided courtesy of the National Film Board; we would like to thank them for their support in organizing this event, and we invite our members to check their film collection www.nfb.ca

 

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VanDusen Garden admission is not included with admission to this event.