The Edge Of Telluride will premiere at the Telluride Mountain Film Festival May 22-25th 2009. The Edge Of Telluride focuses on the Ski Mountaineering and the Big Mountain climbs of Little Wasatch Peak, San Juaquen, Gold Basin, Alta Lakes and Wilson Peak., and the amazing descents done by Josh Geetter, Kim Havell, Rick Willis, Jason Troth (snowboarder), Scott Kennett and others.  Historic ski mountaineering descents were accomplished during the record-breaking season of 2008 in spectacular Telluride Colorado. Conditions seldom seen allowed for multiple descents of the ominous West Face of Little Wasatch Peak. This face that can be seen from downtown Telluride, has rarely been skied and requires the full compliment of mountaineering skills. When local climber and skier Joshua Geetter broke open the face for the purpose of completing a descent of "The Grandfather Couloir" which had swept his partner 800 feet in a 2003 epic, James Kleinert had the camera rolling. Other locals soon followed, and were captured on film completing descents of "The Oblivion Bowl," "The Elevens" couloir and other rarely attempted regional ski mountaineering routes.   The Edge Of Telluride takes the audience inside the mind set, challenges and ecstatic breakthroughs of Ski Mountaineering.  Capturing the pure essence of the Spectacular San Juan Mountain in Southwest Colorado.  The film leaves a deep impression of these beautiful haunting mountains and the athletes that have the nerve to climb and ski them. Email us here if you would like to know when The Edge of Telluride will be available for purchase.

From the Denver Post (for reference, The Edge of Telluride was previously named Life in the No Fall Zone) "TELLURIDE — At the moment, life in the no fall zone is very good indeed. Dicey, a bit nerve-rattling, perhaps a tad tumultuous, but all things considered, not too shabby. I can't take credit for naming this place just beyond the rope-wrapped boundaries of the Telluride Ski Resort. That claim belongs to ski moviemaker James Kleinert, whose forthcoming film offering titled "Life in the No Fall Zone" focuses on the ski mountaineering descents of the Little Wasatch Face and the surrounding San Juan Mountains south of the resort. But I've been there, or at least close enough to count, from my perspective. No, I've never skied "Grandfather Couloir" or "The Why Couloir," but I got a pretty good glimpse of them during a day in the Bear Creek backcountry about a week ago, and an even better view from the vantage of Kleinert's camera lens last year. They are harsh, unforgiving places, steep and narrow spaces between rocks hanging precariously close to areas known as "The Oblivion Bowl" and "The Graveyard," where Greyhound bus-sized blocks of snow decompose alongside whole trees, uprooted and frozen, and those others splintered like toothpicks." Read the entire article here or at the Denver Post's site.

To see the original Moving Cloud site, click here.

Email us