The Denali Experiment

As promised here is the complete 15 edit: Free-ride skier Sage Cattabriga-Alosa and big mountain snowboarder Lucas Debari step out of their elements and make an attempt to climb, ski and snowboard Denali. Sage and Lucas get a helping hand from a huge cast of seasoned and professional climbers and ski mountaineers from the North Face Athlete Team, including Hilaree O’Neill, Conrad Anker, Ingrid Backstrom, Jim Zellers, Emilio Previtali and Giulia Monego, as the two embark on the hardest expedition of their lives.

Although I was still injured during this expedition, it was an honor to get a chance to tell the story and live vicariously through the footy during my recovery. With eight characters and lots of possible story-lines it was one the most challenging pieces I have worked on to date!

We are lucky to be able to share it this way, it's true 'experiment' for in terms of how how many people will have the attention span to watch the whole thing online :) Hopefully it does well, so we can keep it coming! Thanks for watching, ~renan



a CAMP 4 COLLECTIVE production
Director : Jimmy Chin
Cinematographers : Jimmy Chin, Matt Irving, Adam Clark
Editor: Renan Ozturk
Motion Graphics: Barry Thompson, Eric Bucy, Mary Blumen
Additional Media: Teton Gravity Research, Absinthe Films, Colby Coombs, Renan Ozturk
Color: Anson Fogel

music in order of appearance:

Philip Sheppard
Song: Night Vision
PhilipSheppard.com

Yppah
Song: Never Mess With Sunday
Myspace.com/Yppah

Sun Wukong Project
Song: Clear Puzzles in Mjet
TheSunWukong.com

Ammoncontact
Song: Like Waves Of The Sea
NinjaTune.net/Artist/Ammoncontact

Philip Sheppard
Song: The Valley
PhilipSheppard.com

The Damn Sons
Song: Who Wants More
DamnSons.com

CatacombKid
Song: Digital Cliffs
CatacombKid.com

CatacombKid
Song: Water
CatacombKid.com

Amon Tobin
Song: Bloodstone
AmonTobin.com

Ape School
My Intention (Yppah Remix Instrumental)
NinjaTune.net/Artist/Ape-School

Fink
Song: Yesterday Was Hard On All Of Us
FinkWorld.co.uk

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The North Face TV spot

Have you seen the new North Face commercial lately on TV? If not or don't have a TV (like me) here is the 30 sec spot that is now airing on prime time. It was written, produced, directed, shot and edited by Camp 4 Collective. Also a big thanks to Brain Farm Cinema for working with us on the cineflex aerial footy and BASSNECTAR for the music!

Although it was a only a 30 spot it was a pretty epic project with over 2TB of footage to work with. We are psyched to be able to utilize some of the out-takes in this behind the scenes piece. Considering this was the project that almost killed Jimmy Chin and myself last spring, it feels really good to have it finally have it all see the light of day!! warmest regards, ~reo
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The Denali Experiment

Hell All,

Sorry for the lack of posts, its been a crazy last few months on expedition in the Indian Himalaya and then directly back into full on editing mode on this wild Denali expedition edit. I promise I will catch you all up with the inside info on the Meru expedition as well as keep the posting a bit more regular :) For now please enjoy the teaser for THE DENALI EXPERIMENT. I will post the full 15 minute feature here next Monday! Thanks so much for watching, ~renan



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StoneNudes with Dean Fidelman

Dean, "Bullwinkle" Fidelman has been a fixture in the Yosemite climbing scene for nearly forty years.  Through his black and white photographs he has documented several generations of Yosemite Climbers.  From the StoneMasters to the RockMonkeys Dean has been there to photograph Yosemite history being made.  In 1999 Dean began work on his "StoneNudes" project, one of the most unique Art projects the Climbing Community has ever scene.  Since then Dean has traveled around the country and the world photographing real rock climbers (both male and female) bouldering naked.  Dean believes that both the rock and the human body are sculptures, and that we look both beautiful and natural climbing.
Pleas visit The Stone Nudes Website to learn more. 

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Meru Eleven

After 4 months of non-stop rehab, training & body work I'm stuffing base-camp duffles for an early morning departure to the himalaya with Jimmy Chin & Conrad Anker. Big thanks to everyone for the support along the way and the understanding during the decision making process. Hopefully we will be updating the Meru Eleven FB page along the way.... Sincerely, ~reo


A 19min short film detailing our 2008 attempt on the same objective...

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MINI DAWGZ_THE MOVIE_TENSLEEP_2011

I had the pleasure of spending a week in Ten Sleep Wyoming with young up and coming climber Stefan Lavender.  He brought his two mini-dogs Wentworth, and Nemo, and I brought along my pug Gus.  I also brought along the new GH2 camera and the Noktor ƒ0.95 Lens to test them out.  Still love the 5d, but I like the GH2 a lot too.  As usual, the music is mine... if you like this song,  it's on my new Album, available exclusively from Vertical Carnival!  

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On Assignment

My favorite of the 3 pieces we produced for the May National Geographic cover story about Yosemite climbing. It seemed so serendipitous to be 'on assignment' in a place that we all cut out teeth as adventurers (and then ended up becoming the namesake of our collective!) As always, thanks for tuning in! ~reo

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Yosemite Falls High-Line

We shot this piece for National Geographic last spring. Its always good to hang with the monkeys in the Valley!! Best, ~reo

Yosemite Falls High-Line from Camp 4 Collective on Vimeo.

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Ten Sleep Summer

Here is a great video shot and edited by John Dickey for Black Diamond, that captures my two week trip to Ten Sleep Canyon, one of the best summer sport climbing destinations in the country!!! 

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The Tooth Traverse

This piece is comprised of some of the attempts Zack Smith , Freddie Wilkinson and myself have put into the 'Tooth Traverse' of the Ruth Gorge, AK.

There has been a log going on surrounding our adventures: The 1st attempt was heavily embarked upon only days after the memorial for the deaths of our close friends vimeo.com/​5065432, the 2nd attempt ended with helping with body recoveries of other climbers in the gorge and the just before our proposed launch day this past spring I almost died in a skiing accident.

Beyond the allure of enchaining one of the most iconic [& untrodden] skylines in NA the Tooth Traverse has come to represent so much more than that to us. With my healing going well and the inspiration (and angst) greater than ever we are planning another attempt in the NEAR future.

I see the eventual story breaching some pretty heavy topics involved in alpine climbing: sponsored vs. non-sponsored expeditions, dealing with death and the effect tackling dangerous objectives has on friends/family.

At any rate here is a little window into our work in progress. ~reo
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Living The Dream 2

A standard day in the life of the recovery from a few broken vertebrae and a skull fracture. Even though I'm not technically cleared for psychical therapy yet, the time has finally come for some soul therapy. Besides my standard 5d shooting style it was cool to test out the POV.HD cam. It was fun to experiment with a fresh roll of duct tape, a bit of stiff steel wire and some thin pieces of PVC :)

cheers, ~reo

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Towers of the Ennedi-festival cut

Super psyched to finally share the festival cut of the "Towers of the Ennedi" adventure to Chad. In the past most festival edits are usually locked away for select screenings but in the last year it seems like there has been a huge paradigm shift of the major festival directors and we are able to post such edits for free online without it effecting the big screen showings. This is pretty much the same cut as most of you may have seen but with ~10 new art animations added in! Thanks for checking it out. ~reo

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The Nepal Diaries_Part Two

Here is Part two of the Nepal Diaries!!! WOOHOO!!  Love Cedar! Read more...

Burning the Brace

Happy to report that after 3 months on lock down inside a c-collar healing fractured c2/c7 vertebrae the beast comes off! ~reo

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Two Shorts From My Winter in Nepal

So While I was in Nepal this winter I did a bunch of shooting.... Here are two of the pieces to come out of that trip!!!  One profiles the legendary alpinist Pete Athans, and is available thanks to the north face as a sneak peek, only on vertical carnival!!!  The Emily and Matt piece features a bunch of music from the new album .... so if you like it... buy the album!  Cheers!!!  Cedar.

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Alex Honnold_The Neverending Ticklist

Hey Guys, Cedar here!! Check out this Alex Honnold profile piece I cut for Black Diamond.  I shot this last summer during the same week that "Squamish in a Day" and the infamous "Boogie til you Poop" videos were shot!! Cheers, Cedar.

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Lhoste Dispatch #5!

Thanks for following these dispatches from the high himalaya. I know Hennie and the guys put their full on heart and soul into these so enjoy this final epic post! ~reo



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Shed Some Light, My New Album!!!

 So, after a year of tweaking in my humble home studio I have put together a new album.  The last three years and three albums has been a huge learning process with lots of setbacks, breakthroughs and moments of pure joy.  I'm proud of this album... it's far and away my best work.  All the songs are completely original from the Vocals to the Guitar to the beats to random Mbira licks and Synth embellishments.  This is truly a labor of lover and has been my most cherished creative outlet of late...so I  really hope you guys like it!  The Album features 20 songs and is optimized for  itunes.  To everyone who bought one of my last two albums... thanks a lot... if you liked that you'll love this...Cheers!!!  You can Buy it right HERE>

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Telluride Film Festival!

This past weekend a number of our films graced the the big screen at the amazing Telluride Mountain Film Festival.  Situated deep in the mountain of Colorado this festival is one of the most recognized on the planet for bringing stories of postive change for the planet to thier audience.  It is always a big energy boost to attend and a huge honor to have our expedition stories screen in the same group as films that tackle huge political, social and environmental issues.  The TNF line-up of films included COLD (Forge Motion Pictures), TOWERS OF THE ENNEDI (Camp 4 Colective), DOWN OUT AND UNDER (Sender Films) and ON ASSIGNMENT (Camp 4 Collective). 

As an athlete and filmmaker there is nothing more exciting (and scary!) than to be able to premier your work in front of a packed theatre of liked minded people hungry to absorb the adventure.  Being able to see peoples reaction in real time and answer question on stage is one the most powerful ways I can imagine to share stories.  For me, this realization of the power of film really stemmed from this particular festival in 2009 when Conrad Anker, Jimmy Chin and myself premiered SAMSARA and it took the Charlie Fowler Climbing film award.

I'm so proud to report that the TNF film hightlighting the historic ascent of G2, which is a very real and visceral depiction of what it is like to undergoe climbing a 8000M peak in winter won the Charlie Fowler Climbing Film award.  Furthermore our film "Towers of the Ennedi" recieved a honorable mention in this catagory and was also nominated for the cinematograpy award.  Athough I'm not much of a competive person it is always a bit nerve racking to attend the award ceremony and see how your peers, mentors and audieneces judge your art of storytelling.  In the end it is all about all those special intactions you have throughout with event with the amazing people that inpsire you to take action to keep sharing & creating positive change for the planet!   Thanks for reading and hope to see you all at the next T-Ride Mtn Film Fest :)   Cheers,  ~renan Read more...

Lhoste Dispatch #4

The team gets some pow turns :)
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