The Sufferfest
USA 2013 / 18 mins.
Directed by Cedar Wright
With Alex Honnold
* Screenings: Friday 3:30 PM, Saturday 2:30 PM, Sunday 1:00 PM
Sufferfest – An activity whereby all participants ache, agonize, ail, be at a disadvantage, be racked, deteriorate, endure, grieve, languish, and/or writhe.. but by co-misery, yet co-hesiveness, will have experienced a grand time. Often survived through sarcasm.
Follow Alex Honnold and Cedar Wright on an ambitious human-powered adventure to summit all of California’s 14,000 foot peaks via technical climbing routes, with no ropes! New to the sport of biking, and having underestimated the scope of the challenge, Alex and Cedar soon spiral down a rabbit hole of sunburn, suffering, and a seemingly endless test of their mental and physical endurance.
STEVE’S TAKE: There are between 12-17 peaks over 14,000 feet in California, depending on how you define “peak”, in three different mountain ranges, and all but two are found in the Range of Light. The idea of climbing them all, via technical routes without ropes is novel. Linking them all up by bike? Kinda stupid. Watch Cedar and Alex flail on bikes and solo on granite in this tour of the high peaks of California.
