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LADY EVEREST
2025, Spain, 59min
Director: Mª Isabel Díaz Novo
INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE
Fifty years ago, on 16 May 1975, Japanese climber Junko Tabei achieved a remarkable feat by becoming the first woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest. It is unfortunate, but not unexpected, that the celebrations were confined to Asia. However, her story is undoubtedly one of the most inspiring in sport. Tabei transcended social norms and Japanese cultural traditions by adopting masculine and culturally different or westernised methods to lead high-altitude mountain expeditions for women only. Tabei helped establish the Joshi-Tohan Japanese Ladies Climbing Club, founded on the slogan: “Let’s go on an overseas expedition by ourselves”.
TROVADOR DE LAS CUMBRES
JEAN-MICHEL JORDÁ
Thursday December 11 – 16:00 Euskalduna Bilbao
Jean-Michel Jordá is a mountaineer and filmmaker. His film ‘Everest Green’ received the Award for Best Mountaineering Film in 2018 in the Mendi Film festival. In 2023, he premiered ‘Everest Invaders: asalto a la papelera más alta del mundo’, in Bilbao. "I could have been a vagabond. Cinema, beauty, art, the mountains, the wind, the sea, reflection, some wonderful encounters, and Phi, made me a troubadour".
