When climbers , , and met at the 2006 , an X Games-style event for amputee athletes, one of them proposed tackling a big wall in Yosemite. “The three of us are all climbers first, and then second, we're disabled,” says Arc'Teryx athlete Craig DeMartino. “And so, if climber is what you are, one of the best things you can do as a climber is to climb El Cap.”
The Gimp Monkeys is a eight-minute short from that follows the crew's quest to climb Zodiac, an 1,800-foot route up the southeast face of El Capitan in Yosemite National Park.
The film premiered in early October at the in Boulder, Colorado, where the three stars took home the award for Athletes of the Year. The screening was met with a ton of laughter and cheering, according to co-director Fitz Cahall. The film will screen this weekend at the in Asheville, North Carolina鈥攋ust in case you want to watch it again, this time with a crowd.
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