KENDAL “Climbing Blind,” from Alastair Lee, took the Grand Prize at the 2019 Kendal Mountain Festival on Saturday. Detailing the ascent of a vertical rock pillar, the film revealed how a blind mountaineer led the climb, assisted only by a sight-partner a rope length below. The film had particular significance for a British audience, which had watched the climb in 1967 as an early outside broadcast undertaken by expert mountaineers.
“Scenes From a Dry City,” directed by Francois Verster and Simon Wood, won the Environmental Prize. The dry city in question was Cape Town, and the film filtered through the different impacts the drought has upon different communities and left a clear impression of how society can easily fracture when a natural resource is scarce.
The competition showcased 103 films which were judged against eleven different categories. With a theme of “openness,” the organizers attempted to highlight the trait of of an adventurous mindset and tackle subjects as diverse as conservation, politics, disability and indeed anything which could be interpreted as a challenge to engaging with the world of the outdoors.
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