The below post was contributed by Liz Allen, IC’s Director of Information Systems.
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“We are limited by our beliefs.”

Last week I went to see the Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour all four evenings it played at the San Diego Natural History Museum. If you like films, the outdoors, or revel in humans pushing themselves past their perceived limits, it is an event you don’t want to miss. I left every night inspired to charge life harder.

“It’s all about attitude. And it’s all about perception. What do you really perceive is hard?” -Craig DeMartino

The Gimp Monkeys was one of my favorite films from this year’s tour. It’s a short documentary about three climbers taking on El Capitan in Yosemite – one of the sport’s iconic climbs – and oh yeah, they happened to be disabled. Together Craig DeMartino (lost a leg after a climbing fall), Jarem Frye (lost a leg to bone cancer), and Pete Davis (born with one arm) climbed 2,000 vertical feet in 4 nights and 5 days. They believed they were capable of great things so greatness was precisely what they set out to achieve. Bonus: they picked on of my favorite The Kills songs as the soundtrack.

“The right attitude and one arm will beat the wrong attitude and two arms. Every time.” – Pete Davis