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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). The actual climbing took 6 months ...
Mountain Queen: The Summits of Lhakpa Sherpa is a 2023 American documentary film directed by Lucy Walker. It follows Lhakpa Sherpa as she climbs and survives ten successful summits of Mount Everest. It had its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 8, 2023, and is scheduled to be released on July 31, 2024, by ...
The Alpinist is a 2021 American documentary film directed by Peter Mortimer and Nick Rosen about Marc-André Leclerc, a free-spirited and little-known 23-year-old Canadian rock climber, ice climber, and alpinist.
“Skywalkers: A Love Story,” a Netflix documentary released July 19, chronicles the daring exploits of Angela Nikolau, 31, and Ivan Beerkus, 30, who found love in a high-up (and some might say ...
Fear City: New York vs. the Mafia. This three-part documentary dives into the New York City mob families of the ’70s and ’80s and the FBI agents who infiltrated the crime organization. It’s ...
The post This pulse-pounding Netflix documentary has stunning footage like you’ve never seen appeared first on BGR. When you are in the mountains, if you give up, you die. Those words are the ...
Free Solo is a 2018 American documentary film directed by Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin [4] that profiles rock climber Alex Honnold on his quest to perform the first-ever free solo climb of a route on El Capitan, in Yosemite National Park in California, in June 2017.
In March 1988, a Polish climbing team in the Karakoram struggles on their expedition to the second highest eight-thousander, K2.Two of its climbers, Maciej Berbeka and Aleksander Lwow [], decide to attempt the first winter ascent and first alpine style ascent of a neighboring eight-thousander, Broad Peak, despite the protests of their leader, Andrzej Zawada.