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Whether you love scaling big rocks or just watching others do it on the big screen, these films capture climbing at its best The 20 Best Climbing Films of All Time Skip to main content
Sacred Waters (1932 film) Sacred Waters (1960 film) Scream of Stone; Seven Years in Tibet (1997 film) Sherpa (film) Shoot to Kill (1988 film) The Silent Mountain; Skiing Everest; The Son of the White Mountain; Stars at Noon (1959 film) Storm Over Tibet; Struggle for the Matterhorn; Stürme über dem Mont Blanc; Sub Zero (film) The Summit (2012 ...
[14] The American Alpine Club said the film was "detailed enough to appeal to a seasoned alpinist," and that "The footage of Marc soloing big ice routes around Canada and soloing the Stanley Headwall are truly mind blowing." [15] In 2022, climbing writer Andrew Bisharat ranked The Alpinist as fifth in his "20 Best Climbing Films of All Time." [16]
A mountain film is a film genre that focuses on mountaineering and especially the battle of human against nature. In addition to mere adventure, the protagonists who return from the mountain come back changed, usually gaining wisdom and enlightenment.
The film dramatically opens with French climber Jean–Minh Trinh-Thieu taking a large fall from the top of the Johnny Dawes's gritstone test-piece, Gaia at Black Rocks, [2] from which Trinh-Thieu broke his leg. [3] Rock & Ice called it "the most iconic rock climbing whipper [fall] of all time". [4]
"The Wall--Climb for Gold" is a 90-minute film that follows four Olympic athletes, from qualification to their performance on the big stage. Like any good sports film, it is deeply emotional.
The documentary is about Project Possible, a plan by Nepali high altitude climber Nirmal Purja to climb all of the world's 14 highest peaks with an altitude greater than 8,000 metres (26,247 ft) (called eight-thousanders) inside 7 months (i.e. from early spring to late summer, before the winter season begins).
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