The Banff Mountain Film Festival is making its way throgh London as part of its global tour. The festival is a celebration of some of the most daring, inspiring, life threatening stories of extreme adventures.
Parking Garage: Beyond the Limit was the least serious of all the films (it is afterall a spoof) but it tells the story of determination and strength of one man on a mission to reach the top level of the parking garage.
A couple of years ago, we had a similar encounter with a group of people on a serious expedition to the 3rd floor of their office building. Touching the Stairs follows James, Jo and Pete as they risk their lives taking the steps and walking.
Both stories show passion, hard work and heroic efforts by all involved. They also demonstate how much more interesting life can be when you walk the walk.
Ps- The Banff Mountain Festival is still touring around the UK and other places in the world. If you want to see more (and real) creative inspiring films check out the schedule.
Katherine Hui is currently the Social site editor at Green Thing, a web-based public service in London that inspires people to lead greener lives through creative content.
Before this, she worked as the Development Manager at Social Innovation Camp, an organization that encourages people to use web and mobile-based technology to mobilise social change. She oversaw 300 ideas submission and helped build 20 prototypes – five of which have gone on to get further funding or investment.
Katherine’s came over to the UK form Canada in 2007 for an MSc program at the London School of Economics. Before arriving in London, she managed a small environmental start-up in Vancouver called the Canadian Climate Change Alliance.
Katherine is football mad. She is a loyal supporter of Arsenal FC, plays for Islington Borough Ladies FC and coaches for Gunners in Islington in her spare time. Her second favourite hobby is kite surfing and she can sometimes be found chasing the wind.
