25.7. THURSDAY 15:30 CIRKUS FELLINI
Slovenian Tomaž Humar needed fifteen days of extreme climbing to independently overcome the 1100-metre-tall, vertical granite cliff El Capitan in the Yosemite Valley in California, using the Reticent Wall route, one of the most difficult and dangerous technical routes in the world. His successes in the Himalayas rank him among the most successful alpinists in the world. The scenes of the ascent and the descriptions of the difficulties are fascinating! The rock has very few cracks for the pegs, and the ones he introduced didn’t hold well, which caused him quite a few problems. Using two ropes, he took with him all the necessary equipment to avoid turning back and successfully completed the ascent. At the 1999 festival in Trento, the film won the Silver Gentian for Best Sports Documentary.
