Published on Wednesday, August 27, 2008
By PAT O'BRIEN
Riverside native Mitchell McIntire is willing to risk exhaustion, oxygen deprivation and vertigo to make a documentary of an expedition up Mount Kilimanjaro called "Climb Without Limits."
McIntire and two other graduates of Chapman University's Dodge College of Film and Media Arts in Orange will leave Friday for Tanzania to film Bonner Paddock, an Orange County man with cerebral palsy, as he and his team attempt to summit the 19,340-foot extinct volcano.
The climb is 64 miles over eight days up the highest solitary peak in the world with terrain that ranges from rainforest and savannah to glacial ice.
"For me, this is the filmmaking opportunity of a lifetime," McIntire said.
The documentary's director is Kent Bassett. McIntire was supervising sound editor on Bassett's "The Line," which won the American Society of Cinematographers' Lazlo Kovacs Heritage Award and the Spirit Award at the Brooklyn International Film Festival
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