The first week-end at the International Mountain Summit Brixen was incredibly successful, attended by more than 1,400 visitors.
\nFive hundred people were enchanted by Chris Sharma\u2019s talk on \u201cLiving the Dream\u201d, where the Californian \u201csunnyboy\u201d showed videos and images of his chief climbs, such as Biographie (9a+, C\u00ebuse), \u00a0Es Pontas (9b, Mallorca), Jumbo Love (9b, Clark Mountain, USA), and Neanderthal (9b, Santa Lynia, Spain), as well as explaining his life style, which took him around the world, armed with only his rucksack and his will to climb beautiful lines, until he decided to find a more stable home and established himself in Catalunya, together with his climbing partner Daila Ojeda.
\nWith \u201cExpeditions\u201d, Stefan Glowacz talked about his new book, \u201cExpeditionen\u201d, which shows expeditions in Venezuela, Tibet, Canada and Kenya. Strong emotions surrounded Stefan\u2019s commentary, as his dear friend Kurt Albert, who passed away last year, took part in two of these expeditions, so those images meant strong memories for him.
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\nThe second Slackline World Championship took part in the main square in Brixen, where more than a thousand people attended a very exciting show.\u00a0The American 22-year old Michael Payton won the title, while Andy Lewis, last year\u2019s winner, won the World Cup.
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\nThe discussion \u201cMountains as a show stage\u201d tried to define the role of the media in reporting news from the mountaineering world. What is the relationship between mountaineers and journalists?\u00a0Are the latter only looking for some revelatory news?\u00a0Is journalism a marketing tool?\u00a0\u00a0 This debate will carry on next Friday, when the discussion \u201cShow Alpinism\u201d will give further opportunities to deepen this interesting topic. \u00a0Adam Ondra, Reinhold Messner and Stefan Glowacz will be among the guest speakers.
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\nRoger Sch\u00e4li\u2019s and Simon Gietl\u2019s presentation \u201cJoy and Sorrow in the Mountains\u201d is tonight\u2019s hot event, where the two mountaineers will illustrate a recent tragedy, which happened during their Himalaya expedition last Spring, in addition to illustrating other successful expeditions in Greenland and Patagonia.
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\nAdam Ondra, Marko Prezelj, Dean Potter, Beat Kammerlander and the brother Alexander and Thomas Huber are among the key speakers coming up this week at IMS.
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