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Step Into Liquid: The Story of Surfing

Step Into Liquid: The Story of Surfing

Step into Liquid is a 2003 documentary about surfing directed by Dana Brown, son of famed surfer and filmmaker Bruce Brown. The film includes surfing footage from the famous Pipeline, the beaches of Vietnam, and some of the world’s largest waves 200 miles off the San Diego coast on the Cortes Bank. Step Into Liquid [...]

April 8, 2010 Extreme Sports 0 Comments

Touching The Void

Touching The Void

The closer you are to death. The more you realize you are alive. Joe Simpson and Simon Yates set out to climb the west face of the Siula Grande in the Peruvian Andes. It was 1985 and the men were young, fit, skilled climbers. The west face, remote and treacherous, had not been climbed before.
Following [...]

March 18, 2010 Extreme Sports 1 Comment

Carts Of Darkness

Carts Of Darkness

In Carts of Darkness the treacherous mountain roads and discarded shopping carts of North Vancouver become the rivers and boats of self-exploration for a group of homeless ‘free birds’ who have few chances at joy. They’ll come for the carts and the crashes, the booze and the bruises, but they’ll stay for the story of [...]

March 15, 2010 Extreme Sports 1 Comment