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Video & Film
Our involvement with film began in the summer of 1968. Lito Tejada-Flores was asked to be one of three climbers in a project to make a 16mm documentary film about the climb of the original "Nose" route on El Capitan, Yosemite Valley's tallest and grandest cliff. Two months later, the climb was filmed, all 36 pitches, although the final film would not be released for another ten years.
After this baptism in documentary filming, Lito signed up to film an unusual expedition. The Funhogs, a group of California rock climbing friends, left Ventura in a Ford Van and drove to Patagonia at the bottom of South America, to climb a new route on Mount Fitz Roy. Lito's film of the ascent won the Grand Prize at the Trento Film Festival in Italy.
So inevitably, film, and later video, has loomed large on our creative horizons. Lito went on to produce the best-selling ski instruction films of all times, his Breakthrough on Skis series of one-hour videos, showcased in the Ski Instruction pages of this web site.
—To learn more about any of Lito's ski videos, just click on one of the video package covers above and right, to visit detail pages about those films.
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