The McKinney Nordic Ski Club is getting a helping hand thanks to the Oliver Theatre.
The theatre has two showings (April 11 and 14) of the award-winning film documentary This Mountain Life, the treacherous 2,300-kilometre trek through the Coast Mountains to Alaska by a B.C. mother and daughter team.
From those shows the theatre is donating all of the door proceeds and a portion of the concession sales to the club based in the hills east of Oliver.
The high definition, 80-minute film documents the the incredible six-month journey that had only been done once before and never by a female duo.
Martina Halik and her mother Tania, who had just turned 60 at the time, left from Squamish on their adventure northwards.
Along the way they encountered a unique cast of characters including a group of nuns who inhabit a mountain retreat, an “impassioned alpinist,” a snow artist and a couple that had been “living off the grid” for nearly a half century.
“Their adventure is interspersed with beautifully crafted portraits of high-altitude human endurance: the gripping story of an avalanche burial,” reads the description about the pair’s quest.
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The McKinney club is a non-profit, volunteer-based cross country ski and snowshoe park on the way to Mount Baldy with 14 kilometres of trails.
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Originally opened in 1990 as Inkameep X-Country Ski Club, seven years later and after a short move further up the mountain the name was changed to McKinney Nordic Ski Club.
Show time on April 11 is 7 p.m. and 2 p.m. on April 14. Tickets are $8 and are available at www.olivertheatre.ca.
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