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Reel Rock 14 Film Tour will be stop Monday at the Community Concert Hall at Fort Lewis College.<\/span>Courtesy of Reel Rock 14<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>

There is a community of athletes who go to great \u2013 and, more often than not, dangerous \u2013 heights for their sport. Sometimes with little fanfare.<\/p>\n

Enter Reel Rock Film Tour.<\/p>\n

Since it was founded in 2005 by filmmakers Josh Lowell and Peter Mortimer, Reel Rock has brought films celebrating climbers to audiences around the world, including Durango, which will be a stop on the tour at 7 p.m. Monday at the Community Concert Hall at Fort Lewis College. This year, the tour is hosted by Backcountry Experience.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe want to pick stories that we feel we can make into good films. We want the films to sort of feel like the best and kind of biggest climbing stories of the year, but having said that, we also look for real diversity,\u201d said Executive Producer Zachary Barr. \u201cWe\u2019re all filmmakers, and we don\u2019t just focus on the hardest rock climb of the year. We\u2019re looking for what\u2019s timely and newsworthy and who\u2019s new, but we have this ability to tell these big, sweeping stories that other people haven\u2019t even heard about yet.\u201d<\/p>\n

This year\u2019s film tour will include:<\/p>\n

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The short film, \u201cThe High Road,\u201d is a profile of elite climber Nina Williams.<\/span>Courtesy<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>

\u201cThe High Road,\u201d a 20-minute profile of boulderer Nina Williams, who is one of the only women who climbs rocks up to 50-feet tall \u2013 without a rope.\u201cUnited States of Joe\u2019s.\u201d When punk rock climbers show up to boulder in rural Utah, they clash with the conservative community made up of Mormons, cowboys and coal miners. After years of antagonism, a group of climbers works with locals to build a more harmonious future. But in this divided era, is that even possible? <\/em>\u201cThe Nose Speed Record.\u201d This 55-minute film finds Alex Honnold and Tommy Caldwell pitted against Jim Reynolds and Brad Gobright in a race for climbing supremacy.<\/em>Barr said that while putting together the films for the annual tour can be challenging, it\u2019s an enjoyable challenge \u2013 and the fans love it, he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is fun. We\u2019ve been doing it for 14 years and it\u2019s a lot of hard work, but we have fans who are waiting for this every year \u2013 starting in the summer, people will start messaging us like, \u2018Where\u2019s the trailer? I need the trailer! What\u2019s it gonna be? Who\u2019s it gonna be this year?\u2019\u201d he said. \u201cWe often see these debates online, like, \u2018I wonder if that\u2019s going to be in. Is that going to be in? Ah, I can\u2019t believe they\u2019re not doing that one!\u2019 It\u2019s just a really special thing, I think, that we\u2019ve been able to create, which is that people look forward to it.\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019s that loyal fan base that keeps the crew constantly raising the bar on their work, Barr said.<\/p>\n

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