The film named Vertical Frontier, which is about the history of climbing in Yosemites, won the mountaneering films category of the International Mountaineering Film Festival (also known as Festak). The event took place last weekend (August 26th-29th) in Teplice nad Metují, the north-eastern Czech town. The visitors trophy was awarded to the Austrian film called The Trip.

The Trip is a story about four young climbers and their three months long trip across Europe.
Besides climbing and bouldering they also tried ice climbing, paragliding and surfing. I enjoyed this film because it offers inspiration on what to do in areas from the North of Europe in Norway to the South of Spain.

Full results:

The main trophy:
The escape over Himalaya / Flücht uber den Himalaya
Maria Blumencron - Germany

Category A – mountaineering sports:
Vertical Frontier
Kristi Denton Cohen – Peloton Productions

Category B – Outdoor sports
not awarded

Category C – Man and mountains
WA-WA-WA!
Radek Popelka – Czech Republic

Jury award
In the shadow of K2 / W cieniu K2
Robert Wichrowski – Poland

Extraordinary award of the jury
Tatry mystérium
Pavol Barabáš – Slovakia

Unoficial opinion of the jury
Golden Ice Axe or one for the all, all for .../Zlatý cepín aneb jeden za všechny, všichni za...
Lubomír Slavík – Czech Republic

The visitor award
The Trip
Armin Buchroithner, Christoph Hoerner a Stefan Ribitsch - Austria

Trophy of the town Teplice nad Metují
Mount Poi – big thing
Jochen Schmoll – Germany&Kenia



One of the projections starts


The bike race 


The Trophy


Mr Photographer Petr Pepe Piechowicz in action (he also presented his work in the exhibition of pictures from Mali)


VIP´s: the Chairman of the Czech Mountaineering Association Jiri Novák (left) talking to Jiri Ruzicka, the founder of the Czech climbing magazine Montana


Competitors without competition: Jan Zbranek and Lucie Rajfova and a puppy, which they brought from Bulgaria, where they competed a week ago during the Festival in Veliko Tarnovo. (The Czech Cup competition which should take place during the Festival in Teplice was canceled in the last days because of the lack of money for transportation of the climbing wall.)


The Cinema


Evening dances


Some climbing in the end. Letecká route on Milenci Tower (Lovers Tower, (after some rainy days the weather got better in the end on Saturday/Sunday )