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VIMFF: Extreme Ascents focuses in on perils of Everest

By: Jonah Lazar, Staff Writer Content warning: mentions of death. The Vancouver International Mountain Film Festival, or the VIMFF, has returned to the city for their spring festivities prior to taking the celebration on the road across Canada and the US. The festival spanned two weeks across a host of different cinemas, with each night focusing on different subject matters related to mountain sports.  I attended the Extreme Ascents showing, expecting an evening of lighthearted, picturesque short films about mountain climbing, as this had been the motif when I attended last October. The North American premiere of the short film…

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