Company: Beijing Documentary
Country: P.R. Of CHINA
Section: SPORT & SOCIETY – SPORT VALUES
Discipline: Slackline
Year: 2016
Director: Yan Wei
Editing: Yan Wei
Photo: Xing Chuan
Voice Off: Peng Linhai
Producer: Zhang Jie
Time: 25 min
Synopsis
The Shangri-La Tiger Leaping Gorge is the first natural barrier of the Yangtze River and one of the deepest gorges in China. The Jinsha River flows between the Jade Dragon Snow Mountain and Haba Snow Mountain at the altitude of over 5000m while the river is merely 60m in width but 3900m in height difference. Facing the running Jinsha River, someone wants to take a shortcut and erect a band to walk across the Tiger Leaping Gorge. He is Zhang Liang, the record holder of band let in height in China. Slacklining is a minority extreme sports introduced in China in recent years. The athlete needs to keep body balance, walk, leap or even complete various complicated skills on the flat nylon rope, which is merely wider than the thumb. Can Zhang Liang successfully realize his dream of extreme sports?