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Gnoser Ski Film

SKIING—

-Against rugged mountains and over wide open
glaciers some of the country's best skiers perform in Ham
Gmoser's latest ski adventure film "Rendezvous In The
Selkirks." The film will be shown on November 10 in
the Gilmer Hall Auditorium. The scenery is said to be
unusually spectacular.

Hans Gmoser, an internationally
known skier, mountaineer, and
photographer will be at the University
on November 10th to narrate
his latest 90 minute full
ski and mountain adventure film,
"Rendezvous in the Selkirks."
This film is to skiing what "The
Endless Summer" was to surfing.
"Rendezvous in the Selkirks" will
be shown in the Gilmer Hall Auditorium
at 7:30 p.m.

The story shows how these
people during their hectic seasons
as international competitors or
professional skiers decide that they
need a break and relaxation once
spring comes. So they plan to meet
at the Fairy Meadow Hut at the
foot of the Adamant Range in
the Northern Selkirks of British
Columbia.

Breathtaking Scenery

Here they find some of the most
exciting skiable terrain on the
continent. During a fox chase
across the wild Granite Glacier,
with Mike Wiegele as the fox,
the viewers can follow them in
and out of crevasses, over 50 foot
ice cliffs and across beautiful slopes
which will make anyone's mouth
water.

For two weeks they ski and play
to their heart's content. In the
evenings talk ranges from major
international races to the intricacies
of running a ski school in
the winter-locked British Columbia
Hinterland, and to why it is possible
for Nancy Greene to win the
World Cup while Canada's male
skiers have yet to win a major
international meet.

This makes "Rendezvous in the
Selkirks" a very real and engaging
story. It also shows that for these
eight adventurers skiing is indeed
"a way of life."

There is thus little doubt that it
is also "a way of life" for Hans
Gmoser, who directs, films and
narrates this mountain adventure
story.