Description: In January 2015, American rock climbers Tommy Caldwell and Kevin Jorgeson captivated the world with their effort to climb The Dawn Wall, a seemingly impossible 3,000-foot rock face in Yosemite National Park, California.
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But for Tommy Caldwell, The Dawn Wall was much more than just a climb. It was the culmination of a lifetime defined by overcoming obstacles. At the age of 22, the climbing prodigy was taken hostage by rebels in Kyrgyzstan. Shortly after, he lost his index finger in an accident but resolved to come back stronger. When his marriage fell apart, he escaped the pain by fixating on the extraordinary goal of free climbing The Dawn Wall.
Blurring the line between dedication and obsession, Caldwell and his partner Jorgeson spend six years meticulously plotting and practicing their route. On the final attempt, with the world watching, Caldwell is faced with a moment of truth. Should he abandon his partner to fulfill his ultimate dream, or risk his own success for the sake of their friendship?
Description: Presented by Moon Climbing: Climber David Fitzgerald is on a mission to climb two V15 boulder problems, Bgeleisen Sit Start and Big Paw, in Blocbuster, from Puzzleglass films.
Description: Exposure Vol II follows athletes Daniel Woods, Jimmy Webb, Alex Megos, Alex Puccio, and Dmitry Sharafutdinov as they push limits of difficulty in rock and competition climbing. This years film brings you stories from around the globe from dark training facilities to the granite bouldering paradise of Switzerland, in aheart-pounding, forearm pump-inducing journey to ascend the impossible.
Description: Filling the Void was created to bring more awareness to the need for land preservation in the Southeast. Unlike climbing areas out west, most Southern climbing is on private property that needs to be purchased and protected to reduce the risk of deforestation and housing developments. The film was made to promote fundraising and encourage climbers to support their local coalitions. The film also showcases first-ever footage of some of the classic routes at the crag.
Description: A story of curiosity, exploration and climate research inside the Greenland ice cap. Canadian adventurer, Will Gadd, uses his ice climbing skills to lead a scientific expedition into a previously unexplored territory beneath the ice sheet.
Description: What makes a city a climbing mecca? The Scene takes an in-depth look at four epicenters of hard climbing and training, and the characters who define them by their own relentless commitment to the sport. The Scene is all guts, no fluff. Just serious rock climbing.
Description: Shivaay, the father of a young girl who went missing from the streets of Bulgaria, defies all odds and exposes the child trafficking mafia. But will his efforts help him find his own daughter who is being forced into the horrific trade? How will a mountaineer from the foothills of the Himalayas fight against the powerful Russian mafia, in the quest to rescue his beloved daughter?
Description: When mountaineer, Mark Whetu, summited Mt. Everest with climbing partner and friend Mike Reinberger it was late in the day and after a freezing night camping on the summit of the worlds highest mountain, Whetu was faced with a terrible decision: to leave Reinberger or stay with him on the mountain forever.
Description: The real-life tragic story of a Mount Everest climbing expedition in which eight people lost their lives. Based on the #1 best-selling book Into Thin Air by John Krakauer.
Description: Stephen J. Wampler scales El Capitan in Yosemite National Park. Stephen has a severe form of Cerebral Palsy and overcomes adversity and physical challenges by doing 20,000 pull ups over 6 days to summit El Capitan.
Description: A group of Belgian climbers ford rivers, float on chunks of ice, and jam out on their mandolins and pennywhistles as they hunt for new, bigwall climbs. From the Canadian Arctic, to Greenland, to the Venezuelan jungle, things get crazy to say the least.
Description: Ben Webster, Shaunna Burke, Andrew Lock, and Hector Ponce de Leon attempt a summit of Mount Everest. This series follows the team and examines the very real conditions groups meet on the mountain.
Description: A dramatization based on real events: Broad Peak tells the story of the legendary Polish mountaineer, Maciej Berbeka, who made the first winter ascents of Manaslu and Cho Oyu before meeting his match on, you guessed it, Broad Peak.
Description: Two parts research expedition, one part climbing (or even less emphasis on climbing it can be argued), The Last Tepui documents a team of climbers and scientists who enlist the help of Alex Honnold to climb a sheer 1000-foot Tepui (cliff) in Guyana to study new organisms. They must help the famed biologist Bruce Means, who is near 80 years old, up to the top of the mesa.
Description: When British alpinist Alison Hargreaves died on K2 (8,611 meters) in 1995, her son Tom was only 6 years old. A quarter of a century later, Tom perished during an attempt on Nanga Parbat (8,126 meters), scarcely more than a hundred miles away. It was a twisted coincidence that only the inscrutable machinations of nature could whip up. Their deaths left behind a father/husband (Jim Ballard) and a daughter/sister (Kate Ballard). The Last Mountain, a new BBC documentary from director Chris Terrill, examines the void the two climbers formed in their wake.
Description: A former CIA assassin, now a college professor, (played by Clint Eastwood) comes out of retirement to avenge the death of a colleague and recover stolen chemical warfare secrets. He does this on the North Face of the Eiger, of all place.
Description: The Climbers is a cinematic retelling of the first Chinese climbers to summit Mount Everest. The perilous journey takes its toll on the mountaineers forcing them to make life or death decisions at every turn.
Description: In July of 2011 42 year old Ammon and Kait his 22 year old his girlfriend set out to climb the never repeated route of Wings of Steel on Yosemite s El Capitan Wings sat unclimbed since the first ascent in 1982 Shrouded in controversy and with a bounty waiting for the second ascent team there seemed to be no better person to climb it than Ammon. But was Kait the best choice for a partner This climb would test of their ability and their relationship The story of Wings of Steel is part legend and part myth The first ascent team spent 39 days climbing the controversial route The result death threats physical assaults and a slander campaign that polarized the Yosemite climbing community for over 30 years Combined with footage shot during their ascent and told through interviews with the first ascent team their detractors climbing historians and Ammon and Kait the truth about the most controversial climb in Yosemite history is finally told.
Description: This film follows the legendary climbing photographer and Stone Master, Dean Fidelman. Fidelman was at the forefront of the free climbing revolution in Yosemite Valley and Joshua Tree during the 1970s, making photographs with John Bachar, Lynn Hill, Ron Kauk, John Long, and many other talented climbers. Over the past four decades, Fidelman has continued to document the evolution of rock climbing as a sport and culture. This documentary takes a look at his impact and influence as a photographer and climber.
Description: Four young climbers dream of climbing the Lotus Flower Tower, a legendary big wall in the Cirque of the Unclimbables in the furthest outreaches of Northern Canada. To reach their 800-meter wall, however, they first have to raft 550 km of the Nahanni river.
Description: Straight talk from Batso. His ascent of the Wall of the Early Morning Light in 1970 was doubtless the high water mark of his rock climbing career. The notoriety surrounding this climb originated partly from the 27 days Warren and his partner, Dean Caldwell, spent completing the climb. At the time it was the longest period anyone had ever spent on a rock wall.
Description: In the mountains behind the sleepy coastal town of Powell River, BC, a small group of rock climbers has spent decades quietly pioneering routes on some of the largest granite walls in Canada. As the last stands of old-growth trees harbored in these valleys come under threat of logging, the climbing community faces the uncertain future of a place that has come to define their lives and legacies.
Description: In June 2011, free-climbing legends Alexander and Thomas Huber set their sights on a treacherously steep route in the Tyrolean Alps: the south wall of the Loferer Alm on the fabled Karma route. A new project was born.
Description: Jim Ewing is a veteran rock climber and senior rope engineer at a rock climbing rope company. On Christmas Day in 2014, Jim fell over 50 feet to the ground in a climbing accident, a near-death experience that led to the subsequent below-the-knee amputation of his left leg. Before walking on a prosthetic, Jim was already climbing again, and before long, he began dreaming about his bucket list.
Description: Michel Piola discovered rock climbing at the Salve, a huge cliff outside Geneva that has been a training ground for a number of leading mountaineers. After 30 years of route development, he is without doubt one of the great new routers and has left a lasting impression on the world of climbing. The choice and style of his lines has made his routes extremely popular among large numbers of climbers.
Description: Among the last unclimbed peaks on earth there stands a little-known mountain in a remote region of China. A climbing expedition makes three attempts over the span of three years to summit the 6060-meter Yangmolong Mountain. Threatened by local villagers and challenged by unpredictable weather and dangerous rock and ice falls, the climbers must decide whether to give up or commit fully to the quest.
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