24.-26. November 2006
Národní dům na Smíchově (The National House in Smíchov)
Adresse: Praha 5, nám. 14. října 16

Smichov´s Festival of Alpinism continues it's tradition and will take place on 24- 26 November 2006 in Prague, again in The National House in Smichov (Národní dům na Smíchově).
It goes in tradition of whole country meetings of Czech members of the Austrian Alpine union Alpenverine (1991 - 2003). In 2004 it first time tooke place under the name of the Festival of Alpinism and became the unique action in Czech Republic.
The program consits the projections of films, diashows and speaches with direct participation of home and foreign guests - mountaineers of all forms from Himalayas to sportclimbing via ski mountaineering and kletterstiegen (via ferrata). There will be discussions with the most of the speakers.
From the foreing guests, we expect several elite climbers - Alex Huber - D, Stephan Siegrist - CH, Tomaž Humar - SLO, Krystof Wieliczki - Polish Himalaya climber. Further there will be Pit Schubert - the chairman of scurity commision of UIAA, Ang Tshering Sherpa - head of the Nepal Himalaya assotiation, Bernd Ritschel - well known mountain photographer, Eugen Hüsler - the mountain book writer, Heli Putz from Bad Goisern and many others. The important partner of the  festival is Austrian Tirolian Mountain Union and Austrian federal Land Tirolia. There will be the president of the Tirol Werbung Josef Margreiter, and head of many Austrian expeditions to Himalayas Wolfgang Nairz. There will participate as well severla important representats of Austrian Alpenvereine - Martin Posch, Klaus Oberhuber and others.
The important guests will come from Slovakia - Zoltán Demján and Ivan Gálfy. And also famous names from the Czech Republic - The world champion Tomáš Mrázek, and at the momment the best Czech Himalaya mountaineer Radek Jaroš, also Zdeněk Hrubý, Pepe Piechowicz, climbers - T. Sobotka, O. Beneš, M. Rosecký, J. Kočara, R. Baum and many others.
Prague mayor Pavel Bém, also mountaineer will take patronage of the festival and he will open it. The photographer Bernd Ritschel from German Kochelu will present more than 70 bigformat photos from Zillertal and Ötztal Alps.
Also various equipment manufacturers will present their equipment.

PROGRAM OF THE FESTIVALU
FRIDAY 24. 11 .2006
15.30 h Marek Toušek, Michal Brouček: Backcountry Camp 2006
Jakub Frey: No Way Bulgaria
16.00 h Tomáš Sobotka, Ondřej Beneš: Madagaskar, Jordan
16.45 h Pit Schubert: Security and risk
18.00 h OPENING CEREMONY
18.15 h Wolfgang Nairz: Tirol live
18.45 h Zuzana Hofmannová: Manaslu 2006
19.45 h Tomaž Humar: Extreme mountaineering
21.00 h announcing of the best presentation
announcing of the price for visitors
SATURDAY 25. 11. 2006
10.00 h Ch. Wörister, G. Unterwurzacher: Großglockner, Rocky Camp 2005
10.45 h R. Baum, P. Pospíšil, M. Holubec: Extreme skiing
11.30 h Klára Poláčková: Cho Oyu
12.30 h PRESENTATION OF THE HONOR GUESTS OF THE  FESTIVAL
12.45 h Martin Minařík: Extreme altitude
Radek Jaroš: From zero to 8000 m
13.45 h BREAKE
14.15 h Stephan Siegrist: Harvest Moon (Thalay Sagar)
15.15 h Zoltán Demján: From Tatras to Himalayas, Dhaulagiri
16.15 h Krzysztof Wielicki: The winter Polish expedition
Krzysztof Wielicki, Jan Vesták: Himalayas projects
17.45 h Heli Putz: Freeride
19.00 h Bernd Ritschel: The world of extreme via ferratas
20.30 h announcing of the best presentation
announcing of the price for visitors
SUNDAY 26. 11. 2006
10.00 h Jan Vesták, Jan Krabec: Gasherbrum II
11.15 h Wolfgang Nairz: Himalayas
12.15 h Zdeněk Hrubý: Mt. Vinson
13.30 h A. Čepelková, A. Zárybnická, P. Jirsa, J. Vesták: The fatal decisions
14.15 h Vladimír Nosek: 7 summits
15.15 h Petr Piechowicz: Norway - la Terre promise
16.15 h Alex Huber: Vertical world
17.30 h announcing of the best presentation
announcing of the price for visitors
17.45 h GRAND PRICE AWARDING CEREMONY
18.00 hod THE END OF THE FESTIVAL
Change of the schedule possible. Reservation at festival.alpy.cz
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