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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 ...
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.
The film’s director, Lucy Walker, first learned about Sherpa in 2004, when she was in Tibet filming “Blindsight,” her acclaimed 2006 doc about blind teenagers climbing a mountain near Everest.
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.
The site's consensus reads, "Gripping visually as well as narratively, Meru is the rare documentary that proves thought-provoking while offering thrilling wide-screen vistas." [ 3 ] On Metacritic , which assigns a normalized rating, the film has a score of 77 out of 100 based on reviews from 15 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".
Netflix has a fantastic collection of documentaries or docuseries, from gripping true-crime tales to eye-opening environmental exposés to intimate looks into the lives of your favorite musical ...
K2: Siren of the Himalayas is a 2012 American documentary film directed by Dave Ohlson. The film follows a group of climbers during their 2009 attempt to climb K2, chronicling the climbers' attempt to surmount the peak on the 100th anniversary of the Duke of Abruzzi's landmark K2 expedition in 1909.