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North Face (German: Nordwand) is a 2008 German historical fiction film directed by Philipp Stölzl and starring Benno Fürmann, Florian Lukas, Johanna Wokalek, and Ulrich Tukur. Based on the famous 1936 attempt to climb the Eiger north face, the film is about two German climbers involved in a competition to climb the most dangerous rock face in ...
The 2008 German historical fiction film Nordwand is based on the 1936 attempt to climb the Eiger north face. The film is about the two German climbers Toni Kurz and Andreas Hinterstoisser, involved in a competition with an Austrian duo to be the first to scale the north face of Eiger. The 2010 documentary Eiger: Wall of Death by Steve Robinson.
In 1966, the first The North Face store was opened; the band The Grateful Dead played at the grand opening. [13] Two years later, Tompkins sold out his stake to Kenneth "Hap" Klopp for $50,000, using the profit to join his wife in co-founding Esprit, a fashion house. Tompkins sold The North Face with the intention of a focus on adventure film ...
Wild Life is a 2023 American documentary film directed and produced by Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin that follows conservationist Kris Tompkins and her husband, entrepreneur Douglas Tompkins. The film was produced by Little Monster Films for National Geographic Documentary Films and premiered at the 2023 South by Southwest Film Festival.
The 1923 silent film comedy A Tough Winter parodied Nanook of the North. [30] [31] It was produced by Hal Roach and directed by Charley Chase, and starred Snub Pollard with Marie Mosquini and James Finlayson. [31] [32] Kabloonak is a 1994 film about the making of Nanook of the North.
The North Face is an American outdoor recreation products company. The North Face produces outdoor clothing, footwear, and related equipment.Founded in 1968 to supply climbers, [2] the company's logo [3] draws inspiration from Half Dome, a distinct rock formation rising over 8,700 feet (2,700 m) above sea level in Yosemite National Park. [4]
The series is set in the year 1859, the final years of the whale oil trade, on a whaling expedition in the Arctic Ocean.The aging whaler Volunteer includes among its crew one Patrick Sumner, the ship's surgeon who hides his dark past as a disgraced military officer, and Henry Drax, the ship's chief harpooner and coxswain who is also a murderous thug and rapist.
Spectrum wrote that the beginning of the film was deceptive in that its initial "Conversations of high adventure spliced between footage of rock climbing, surfing and mountaineering may easily trick the viewer into thinking this is a film about extreme sports," but that the "main clue that hints at a different purpose is the chill sound track ...