Touch the Top of the World

Photos of Sunshine Village by Gerald Vander Pyl.

The Banff Crag & Canyon reports on the filming of Touch the Top of the World at Sunshine Village. Erik Weihenmayer, who climbed Mount Everest in 2001, and played by Sean Johnson, is the subject of the television movie:

Eda Lishman, co-producer of the American film starring mostly Canadian actors, was pleased with both Banff National Park and the ski resort as a location for filming.

“It’s an amazing location,” Lishman said, inside the comfort of the Sunshine Inn.

Weihenmayer himself was on the set for some of the filming at the ski resort, and made quite an impression on Lishman and others involved in the filming.

“It’s really hard to describe someone that you are completely humbled by,” Lishman said of working with Weihenmayer.

“There are these special people that come along in the world and I guess Erik is just one of them. He is so down to earth, so self-deprecating.”

Lishman noted Weihenmayer’s sense of humour and positive attitude about life as his most notable attributes.

“He catches us off guard when he makes jokes about his own disability. Within a minute of meeting him you completely forget that this man has an impairment of this magnitude.

The cast and crew were also set to film at Fortress Mountain and Calgary. Full article at the above link.