ACADEMY SPOTLIGHT : MOUNTAINS THROUGH HER EYES
Rejoignez-nous pour une soirée d’échange et de partage en compagnie d’un panel de grimpeuses professionnelles inspirantes. Une occasion de découvrir leurs points de vue personnels sur la manière de surmonter ses peurs, de relever des défis et de repousser ses limites. La projection des films Hello, Beautiful et Fifty-Fifty et les conférences animées par les grimpeuses ont pour ambition d’encourager et de soutenir les femmes dans leurs projets d’aventures de plein air. Les athlètes Arc’teryx Matilda Söderlund, Tina Hafsaas, Sarah Hueniken, Ines Papert et Alannah Yip, ainsi que la réalisatrice Angela Percival, seront présentes.
Hello, Beautiful
About
While training for the Paris Olympics, professional climber Alannah Yip's hair suddenly starts to fall out. Within weeks, she's diagnosed with alopecia universalis, an autoimmune condition that causes complete hair loss. As Alannah grapples with the sudden change to her physical appearance and the fact that she might not qualify for Paris, she confronts deeply held assumptions about beauty, identity, and self-worth.
Untangling herself from the constructs that have dominated her life, Alannah departs from the competitive climbing world she's known since childhood, looks to nature to guide her toward a place of healing, and embarks on a journey to redefine her perceptions of sport and of self.
Fifty - Fifty
About
Tying in with a climbing partner means more than just working a few pitches or sending the crux together. It symbolizes an intersection of two approaches to the same sport, and how climbers at either end of a rope share similar goals. For renowned alpinists Ines Papert and Sarah Huenekin, the nexus of their aspirations comes as they both climb past the age of 50, inspired to keep pushing harder to achieve their full potential, while relentlessly working to better understand each other as climbing partners, as well as themselves.