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Extreme. the new I fiLm. is big. It promises big air. bigger climbs and the biggest waves you've ever seen on screen. The filmmakers shot the action with the same IMAX techhology th�t put movie audiences on top of Mount. Everest last year. This time. through the massive eight-story screen and surround· sound. viewers experience record-bre�king spectacles and moments of pure athleticism from the world's top adventure seekers. - On lanuary 28, 1998 strong E -Nino wind� powered record 35 to 40-foQt on the fabled North Shore of Oahu, Hawaii _ Waves 9f this height had not been seen in years. Local big-wave legends Ken Bradshaw a Ross Clarke-Jones made surfing histqry: they those waves and lived to talk about it. To shoe,t_ his film, which uses negatives 10 tjl11�s the size standard 35 mm film, Extreme director Jon Long a result, the spray splashes far higher than 40 feet across the movie screen .. , . During their 40-minute journey, the audience goes climbing in Utah with LYl'ln Hill, the first person to free climb the Nose route of Yosemite's EI Capitan in- one day, and back to Hawaii with boardsailing Dunkerbeck. Robby Naish and Bjorn sequences of the movie Columbia for some ice Juneau where Terje , ..... .IPQ5�5e of the best e)Streme , ,, .. ;: ... _- plunge into 15 feet 1OV1#at�r on the steeps of the .:

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