Lifestyles of the extreme and adventurous will feature prominently when the New Zealand Mountain Film Festival begins in Wanaka tomorrow.
Film Festival director Mark Sedon has compiled a five-day programme of films, adventure speakers and outdoors-orientated workshops.
Expect more than 50 films of the most daring, exhilarating, and adrenaline-fuelled escapades, and others about taming nature and discovering new worlds, he said.
Mr Sedon, a Wanaka-based mountain guide, founded the festival in 2002.
It will open with an awards ceremony and previews of winning films, followed by a session including a showing of the best New Zealand made film award winner, Into Perpetual Ice.
A highlight of the five-day festival is expected to be Canadian adventurer Will Gadd's talk entitled "Ice, rock, rivers, clouds and grizzly bears", on Saturday night.
