Third edition confirmed for The Adventure Outdoor Fest in San Candido Innichen. The dates of the Festival are July 22 – 26 2015.
The event will be a fest of sport, nature and outdoor lifestyle where anybody has the opportunity to meet great athletes and to listen to their recent and upcoming projects, and the possibility to experience many different activities within the magnificent scenario of the Dolomites.
ADVENTURE OUTDOOR FEST: MOVIE AWARDS 2015
A great Jury and a wide multisport selection are contributing to the prestige of the AOF movie awards.
We are proud to announce that Grivel will award a Golden Ice Axe to the competition winner. The very special prize is awarded for the first time in a Movie Competition, and it is the same axe awarded each year for the best mountaineering expedition through the Piolet D’Or.
The other Awards will be the Dolomythos Award, the Best Photography Award and the New Adventurer Award.
The Jury Members for 2015: Alessandro Belluscio (Photographer), Piero Badaloni (Journalist), Stefan Hausl (FWT Competitor and professional Freerider), Fausta Slanzi (Representative of the Dolomiti Unesco Foundation), Michael Wachtler (Explorer, filmer and resarcher), Tullio Bernabei (Explorer and member of La Venta Collective) and Marianna Zanatta (Sport Marketing Communication Manager). All the movies selected will be screened at the dedicated Outdoor Theater during the Fest week.
All the competition details and the information to participate can be found at the following link:
http://www.adventureoutdoorfest.com/movie_awards.php
AOF 2015: DOLOMITES are the perfect scenario
The Adventure Outdoor Fest has vision in which the beauty of the Dolomites is the perfect companion to maximize the sport and natural experience in any activity promoted. That is why we are proud to ensure that our collaboration with the Fondazione Dolomiti Unesco, that began in 2014, will continue.
We will host one of the events coordinated by the Dolomites Lab Fest, and will feature Piero Badaloni introducing in World Premiére at a Festival a Documentary about the Dolomites and Nives Meroi will be a special guest. The great alpinist has achieved the summit of 12 of the 14th peaks over 8000m in the world without external help such as oxygen and sherpas. She will present her new book with the help of the Journalist Fausta Slanzi: “Non ti faro aspettare” – “You’ll not wait for me!”
AOF 2015: Athletes – Guests
The Adventure Outdoor Fest has been able to create a very exciting meeting place in San Candido for national and international athletes and superstars like Steph Davis, Stevie Haston, Manolo, Alex Bellini, Marco De Gasperi, Jacopo Larcher, Silvio Reffo, Angelika Rainer, Simona Morbelli, Loïc Collomb Patton, David Fanelli, Chris Espen, Michael Piccolruaz, Rudi Moroder and many more.
This meeting place is open to the public, to give anybody the chance to get in touch, and talk to guests and athletes in many different ways: you can choose to learn from them on the field having them as sports mentors, you can listen and discuss with them at the conferences or you can just spend some time with them at the Adventure Bar or at the Outdoor Pool Party.
The 2015 kermesse will feature many actors of the outdoor world, and we will give special attention to modern Alpinism and its ascending names.
The mountaineer and climber Giampaolo Corona will be with us thanks to the partnership with Grivel. He was in the base camp at Everest during the earthquake and he will talk about the love for the mountains and the experience of facing a catastrophic event like the Nepalese’s one.
Carlo Cosi and Matteo Della Bordella will also be with us. They have been in the nominations for the Piolet D’Or 2015 because of their respective achievements in Perù and Groenlandia.
The La Venta Exploring Team will honor us for the second time and will be in San Candido-Innichen presenting their last achievements in the Gorner Glacier, Switzerland, and in Chiapas, Mexico. The exhibitions will feature the folks from Side Motion Crew with their parkour abilities. Many highliners will be in San Candido-Innichen: Nicolò ‘Niko’ Cadorin, Alex D’Emilia, Armin Holzer, Aldo Valmassoi and Niccolò Zarattini will delight the crowds together with a very special guest: Silvia Moser, 2nd in her Freeride World Tour debut year and avid highliner.
A group of young and talented climbers like Ralf Brunel, Mattia Felicetti, Benjamin Kofler e Federico Modica will present us their upcoming project with a world premiére of ICEBERG CHALLENGE: A story about Ice-climbing and highline that is going to be filmed in June in the Icebergs of Greenland.
Walter Costa, former Italian MTB national team, and Arno Feichter will lead the MTB activities; the running events will be led by the ultrarunner Katia Figini, by the Yoga teacher and runner Tite Togni, Mira Rai, Tomaso Mazzoli, Riccardo Marini and Giorgio Aprà that will introduce some of the Ferrino athletes who run the Tor the Geants race.
Adventure Outdoor Fest yearly awards two athletes, a woman and a male, which distinguished themselves among many others for their results and for their ability to communicate their love for sport and nature.
In 2014 the Best Athletes were the ultra-runner Simona Morbelli, team Salomon, and the Freeride World Tour 2014 winner, Loïc Collomb Patton. Both of them were guests at the Festival and were present in person at the awards.
AOF 2015: Yogadventure
Yogadventure is a fest in the fest. Yoga, meditation and extreme sports are linked, because it is undeniable that the benefits obtainable through these disciplines, as the ability to enhance balance, concentration, strength, and flexibility are extremely important for those practicing extreme sports. Yogadventure is a long term project and because of its structure and quality has obtained the Yani patronage (the national association of Yoga teachers). The program will constitute a bridge to many other disciplines featured at the Fest (running, climbing etc.) and it will be held in several ‘new’ outdoor spots. The program will feature, among others, qualified teachers like Tite Togni, Andrea Serena, Barbara Biscotti, Marion Inderst and Nicole Cavallari.
Moreover, to further develop the link between meditation and concentration we will have a course and an exhibition of Acro Yoga, held by Valeria Maggiali and Francesco Semino from Acroitaliayoga.
AOF 2015: Trail Run, Climbing, Slackline, Indoboard, Bike and other sports
Adventure Outdoor Fest has a strong focus on personal experience, and according to this vision it offers many options and courses for its customers. Since not everyone has the same background, taste or ability we do provide courses for any level suiting the needs of beginners and advanced sportsmen. All our courses are held in the outdoors by professional teachers and athletes, which will help to maximize the experience.
We do have a special program for runners: a three day Trail Running School in which you will be able to to discover and improve techniques, to have dietary and mental strength advices, to run and learn on great trails. All this thanks to the support of Katia Figini from Xcorsi, Tite Togni from yogaXrunners, Maurizio Marini from The Total Training, and Erica Lombardi of LaSalaMacchine.
The Adventure Sky Run will feature two different paths, a 10 and a 24K, and will be a non-competitive training experience to be run together with top athletes in the woods and valleys around San Candido – Innichen.
The trails are the same already approved by running myths like Marco De Gasperi, Simona Morbelli, Nicola Giovanelli, Pablo Criado Toca, Stefano Gregoretti, Enrico Viola, and Mauro Saroglia.
Climbers will have a very special opportunity to attend a lesson-event on the Dolomite rock with Matteo Della Bordella, Giampaolo Corona, Carlo Cosi, Marco Milanese and Luca Matteraglia as mentors and a profession photographer working a dedicated photo-shoot.
And the mountaineering challenges of the future and the past will be the focus of the talks with Nives Meroi and her housband, Romano Benet, Matteo Della Bordella and many others. We will host a special night titled “l’Adventure Alpine Night for Nepal” with the contribution of Giampaolo Corona, who was at the Evrest base camp during the earthquake, and Mira Rai, trail running national champion. They both are working actively to help the reconstruction in Nepal.
The balance and proprioception program will feature Highline exhibitions and many courses. The already established highline and slackline camps will be coupled with the Indoboard and Indofit courses held under the supervision of Indoboard Italia.
The Bike activities will be enriched by a guided tour beginning in Pederü, going through the magnificent scenarios of the Fanes-Sennes-Braies natural park and ending in San Candido-Innichen. This trip will constitute an Adventure@theAdventure: all the participants will be guided by the WhiteGreen Project collective and will have the chance to ride amazing trails and routes before arriving at the Adventure Camping and spend 2 days to enjoy the festival in its wholeness.
For the avid bikers we have decided to extend the Night Experience to the MTB: thanks to the collaboration with LaSalaMacchine and Sextner Dolomiten the participants will have the opportunity to do a night-ride with Walter Costa and enjoy a concert during breakfast at sunrise form a Lodge.
Athlete and guide Arno Feichter will take you form a downhill at the sunset in Monte Elmo-Helm to Enduro and beginners’ rides, and techniques lessons with dedicated courses.
AOF 2015: Outdoor Junior Fest
For the first year we decided to build the Outdoor Junior Fest. It will be a whole program that will allow kids (age 4-14) to try outdoor sports in a playful manner without the need of a parent’s presence. So that the kids can learn their way while their parents will have the opportunity to attend whatever activity they wish in the meanwhile. Kids dedicated activities will be: climbing, yoga, slackline, indoboard, trekking in the woods and… lots of fun!
Our teachers for the kid’s program are all highly qualified and do have a very good track record with children: Lorenzo d’Addario and the X Mountain guides, the Mountain Guide Marco Milanese, Nicola Cerciello from Indoboard Italia and Nicole Cavallari for Yoga.
AOF 2015: VIDEO & FOTO
All the events dedicated to Video and Photography will continue: dedicated events, the International Movie Competition with the Outdoor Cinema and the unique opportunity to attend the Tre Cime Action workshop with the internationally acclaimed Alessandro ‘Alo’ Belluscio that will take you around the Tree Peaks for three days. A new collaboration with Pixartcube.it and the Nikon School will offer a unique opportunity: an outdoor photo workshop for anyone interested will be held in the gorgeous scenario of the Dolomites Natural Reserve that embraces San Candido.
The above mentioned activities are just a fragment of the complete Fest program: we are sure that the 2015 Edition of Adventure Outdoor Fest will provide emotions and experiences that are worth remembering for all its guests!
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