"One of the finest, most powerful films ever presented"

~Tahoe International
   Film Festival

Twelve women, five of them survivors of breast cancer, embarked on an extraordinary expedition up Mt. McKinley, the highest peak in North America. This inspiring documentary captures that 1998 journey of courage and the amazing women behind it. Narrated by Olympia Dukakis, this feature includes music by Mary Chapin Carpenter, Paula Cole, The Indigo Girls, k.d. lang, Sweet Honey in the Rock and others.

Climb Against the Odds is a Michelson-Carlson Production, for The Breast Cancer Fund, in association with KQED Pubic Television in San Francisco.

For more information on the Breast Cancer Fund, and Climb Against the Odds, visit www.breastcancerfund.org/resources_index.html and www.breastcancerfund.org/climb.html

Climb Against the Odds employed some creative and successful ways to finance, distribute, and promote both the program and the important struggle it supports. To learn more about Climb Against The Odds, visit the MediaRights.org Outreach Toolkit, which has selected this program to illustrate some of the creative and successful ways non-profits and independent producers reach millions of people: http://www.mediarights.org/toolkit

For more information on the Broadcast Team Producing the Film, visit www.breastcancerfund.org/climb_press_broadcast.html