European Outdoor Film Tour 2018/19

In several short films, athletes present their most exciting adventures at the EOFT - from climbing action with Adam Ondra to paragliding over Broad Peak and spectacular mountain bike rides, everything is included.

The films

A TO B ROLLERSKI: It's about Raimonds Dombrovskis, who dreamed of competing for the Latvian biathlon team at the next Winter Olympics in 1988. To prepare for this, he embarked on the longest training run of his career: on roller skis from the far north of Canada to the Mexican border, a total of 6700 kilometers. The film recounts his adventure.

VIACRUXIS: Sometimes things just don't go as they should, who hasn't experienced that? This is about a mountain tour that turns into an absolute nightmare. Just as the mountaineers are about to take a photo at the summit, their expedition takes an unexpected turn.

North of Nightfall

Blake Jorgenson

Axel-Heiberg-Island, Canada

The A. O: With the route "Silence", Adam Ondra established a new level of difficulty with 9c. It is considered the most difficult route in the world, but the Czech also shows what he is capable of when it comes to big wall climbing. In "THE A.O." you can get a small impression of this climbing talent. Is it really just muscle power and stamina that seem to effortlessly overcome gravity? Or is it rather his mental strength?

8000+: The paragliding pilot Antoine Girard has already tried twice to climb the 8051m high Broad Peak and fly down into the valley from the summit in a paraglider. However, both attempts were unsuccessful. He is therefore now hoping that the updrafts will carry his glider and him to the summit. If he succeeds, he will have set a new paragliding altitude record.

NORTH OF NIGHTFALL: Axel-Heiberg-Island is the seventh largest island in Canada and lies north of the Arctic Circle. In winter, it is shrouded in complete darkness and covered in ice and snow. Darren Berrecloth, Carson Storch, Cam Zink and Tom Van Steenbergen are on the island to discover another side of the inhospitable environment: The scree landscape criss-crossed by glaciers offers the best mountain biking terrain.

FROZEN MIND: As always, there is also a short film from the winter segment. Victor de le Rue and Pierre Hourticq are out and about in "FROZEN MIND" in Chamonix, France. Here, the two are in their element and in addition to steep gullies and mirror-smooth ice fields, even with wind speeds of up to 60 km/h, they are not short of fun.

THE FRENCHY: The life story of Jacques Houots: How the 82-year-old managed to get so old in the first place is a good question. Because there were at least 23 occasions in his life when he could have died all too soon.

MBUZI DUME: That's Swahili and means "fast goat". The African mountain guides gave Tom Belz this nickname on his ascent of Kilimanjaro. With the difference that the "fast goat" did not climb the mountain on four legs, but on three. To be more precise: on one leg and two crutches, because Tom lost one leg at the age of 8.

Announcement competition:

Watch out! We're giving away tickets again. From the beginning of October you have the chance to win tickets for the current European Outdoor Film Tour. We are giving away 4x2 tickets for selected tour stops. More detailed information will follow.