Sender Films is proud to announce the long-awaited U.S. TV premiere of First Ascent: The Series.
On Thursday, Nov. 4th, The Travel Channel will beam two straight hours of the First Ascent Series into more than 95 million homes across the country, right in the middle of primetime!
The series will air in four back-to-back episodes. Click here for showtimes. There will be additional airings of all 6 episodes throughout the winter. Please check the series out on Travel Channel and push the Nielsen ratings high so we can get more climbing and adventure film on the air!
To help promote the airing, Pete and Nick of Sender will be on NBC’s Last Call with Carson Daly, late night Wednesday, November 3rd. The boys were in Los Angeles last week shooting the piece for Carson and they are optimistic that it will be a very cool mini-feature. It was fun, and a bit disarming, for us to be on the other side of the camera for a change!
Of course, we hope these airings will encourage more people to purchase the entire First Ascent Box Set at www.senderfilms.com. Its available as a beautiful 3-disc box set with inspired graphics by Barry Thompson, and also as an HD download. In both versions you get all 6 episodes and a bonus 7th episode, plus hours of bonus footage and making-of shorts, and we even throw in a free copy of the soundtrack as well for box set buyers. We’ve been receiving great feedback on the box set, with many people calling it a collector’s item they are proud to have on their living room shelf… Huge
We caught up with Dean while working on his next “top secret” project. Dean is also penning not one but two books. One will focus on slacklining and the other will be an autobiography of sorts. Will it translate into a movie deal? Only time will tell but we are sure Dean would do his own stunts!
Chris Sharma, Dean Potter, Paul Robinson and many many more!
This year, Reel Rock turns five, and co-founders Sender Films and Big Up Productions are celebrating by taking you on a global ride like never before. From death-defying speed link-ups of the wildest faces in the Alps, to Olympian displays of strength and tenacity on the hardest boulders ever climbed, Reel Rock 2010 features a breathtaking journey through the vertical realm with the heroes of rock and snow.
After two years of effort, Sender Films groundbreaking 6-part First Ascent: The Series is now being released on DVD box set and digital download at www.senderfilms.com. For those of you who have been following them for a while, this is NOT to be confused with their 2006 film “First Ascent.” It’s a whole new thing. A co-production with National Geographic International, First Ascent: The Series is a culmination of everything they have been striving for in terms of cinematography, story-telling, and cutting-edge vertical feats. They are really proud of it…. enjoy
Dean Potter is characterized by creativity, commitment and challenge. He started climbing as a child, with a free solo fall from a stone wall as one of his earliest memories. Since that time, he has speed soloed Half Dome and El Capitan, Cerro Torre, and Fitzroy. He was the first to make a one-day free ascent of El Cap and Half Dome, and a one-day speed linkup of both of those big walls and Mount Watkins, Yosemites third Grade VI wall. He has also established testpiece crack routes in the Utah desert and highball boulder problems in Yosemite.
Dean has walked the longest highlines, often without a safety leash, though he has dedicated over a decade of engineering and testing to create the safest highline systems currently used. Most recently, he has combined BASE jumping skill with highlining and free soloing, using a specially engineered ultralight BASE rig as his backup system.
Dean currently bases out of Yosemite, where he can usually be found on a large piece of granite.
Favorite Climb: Power of Silence, Hueco Tanks Training
Greatest Climbing Achievement: Winning the 2009 Vail Bouldering World Cup.
When Not Climbing: Hanging out with friends, playing card games, and eating tons of cookies and ice
cream! =)
I love to share my passion for climbing with everyone I come in touch with. Climbing is everything to me and it has brought me great things in life. It has given me the opportunity to meet so many awesome people and has led me to cool places around the world. There is noting better then traveling around and getting to climb at different places. There are so many different types of rock and various types of movements and I want to experience them all!
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Sender Films is proud to announce the long-awaited U.S. TV premiere of First Ascent: The Series.
On Thursday, Nov. 4th, The Travel Channel will beam two straight hours of the First Ascent Series into more than 95 million homes across the country, right in the middle of primetime!
To help promote the airing, Pete and Nick of Sender will be on NBC’s Last Call with Carson Daly, late night Wednesday, November 3rd. The boys were in Los Angeles last week shooting the piece for Carson and they are optimistic that it will be a very cool mini-feature. It was fun, and a bit disarming, for us to be on the other side of the camera for a change!
