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THE MARQUEE
WHAT TO READ, SEE AND APPRECIATE
BIG SKY ALIVE! AT NORTHRIDGE LUTHERAN CHURCH IN KALISPELL
The vision of Big Sky Alive! is to bring the performance of contemporary classi- cal music written by Montana composers to hometowns in our state.
The festival begins on Friday, June 17, with an open rehearsal at 1:15 p.m. where you can watch the musicians prepare the music, see the scores while they rehearse, hear from the composers, and ask ques- tions. It’s followed by a master class at 4 p.m.
Festivities continue on Saturday, June 18, at 1:15 p.m. with an open rehearsal. At 4 p.m. is a discussion panel with composers. The evening ends with a concert at 7:30 p.m. All events are at Northridge Lutheran Church in Kalispell and are free. A dona- tion of $15 is requested for the concert but is not required.
For more information, visit www.facebook.com/BigSkyAlive
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where he’d spent summers in college working for the National Park Service in Glacier National Park.
In 1999, National Geographic com- missioned Rasmussen to produce a six- part series in Pakistan on K2, the sec- ond-tallest mountain in the world and a mountain that kills one of every four climbers attempting to summit. He felt a particular connection to this project, Rasmussen said, because it was his idea.
Four years later, Rasmussen worked as a documentary lmmaker and high-altitude cameraman during the 2003 Everest Speed Expedition, which put the rst Italian woman on the Ever- est summit. In 2006, he went back to Everest with the British Army Expe- dition as it tackled the treacherous and deadly West Ridge route.
In 2007, he summited Everest while lming the Everest Xtreme Expedition as a cameraman for BBC Horizon. That trip was especially rewarding, Rasmus- sen said, because he lmed a team of doctors and climbers who were studying
A climber ascends Mount Everest.
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the relationship between genetics and altitude.
“It was the best expedition I’ve ever been on because it was meaningful,” he said.
Rasmussen is also a proponent of adventuring with his family, with fre- quent camping, canoeing, caving, rock and ice climbing and mountaineer- ing trips. In 1989, he and Margie back- packed the 3,100-mile Continental Divide Trail – “We had to use maps and compasses back then,” he said – and in 2013, he and his eldest son were hired to lm an expedition on Mt. Ararat in east- ern Turkey.
These opportunities seemed to spring up before him, Rasmussen said, and after this most-recent trip to Everest, he felt a little reticent about going back. But, like anyone who has become accustomed to adventure, he had a caveat.
“I’m not convinced I’ll go back to Everest,” he said, adding, “it would have to be a really good expedition.”
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