Join us for a special screening of Skiing Everest to benefit Vertical Express for Can Do MS!

Grand Illusion Cinema
1403 NE 50^th Street
Seattle, WA 98105

Start time: 6 pm
Tickets are $20 each

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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 onnEarth  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." "Top 20 Adventure Films of All Time" according to Men's Journal magazine.

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.