They're starting up a technical climbing program for the first time. I'm pretty much the producer and hope to be the rough-cut editor. Someone else will probably come in and help me do the final edit. And then I was the associate producer for a piece called Things That Aren't Here Anymore. I just had such a good time with that, and I think that's where I saw the potential for a lot of this archival material.
People really respond to it.
It's so much fun, and I think you feel much closer in time to the past when you work on these projects. Well, the idea came to me through a number of avenues. One of them was when I saw a PBS program called The Women's Health Series which featured a Portland climber by the name of Stacy Allison. She was the first American woman to summit Mt. Everest. She was talking about her battle with domestic violence and I was really shocked at the duality between her strength and the mountain and this emotional battle she was fighting.