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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 ...
In 2015, director Peter Mortimer, a climber himself, comes across a blog post about Leclerc, a 23-year-old Canadian who had solo climbed a famous climbing route known as The Corkscrew (1,250m, 5.10d, A1) on Cerro Torre. [1] Mortimer travels to Squamish, British Columbia—the heart of Canada's climbing scene—to meet Leclerc. Leclerc is quirky ...
A new documentary on Netflix, 14 Peaks: Nothing Is Impossible, shows the journey expert climber Nirmal "Nims" Purja went through to summit all 14 of the world’s 8,000-meter mountains in only ...
Mountain Madness guides climbers Anatoli Boukreev and Neil Beidelman, who set the fixed ropes. By then dozens of climbers have reached the step, and congestion forms at the bottom. Climber Jon Krakauer (from Hall's group) continues to the summit with Boukreev. They are joined afterward by Adventure Consultants guide Andy Harris.
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.
Co-written and directed by its star, Thomas Salvador, this atmospheric and suggestive outdoors drama follows a lonely man's attempt to conquer the French Alps.
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 ...
A dramatization of the 1857 Mountain Meadows Massacre, the Netflix limited series follows Sara Rowell (Betty Glipin), a determined mother who hires a guide named Isaac (Taylor Kitsch) to help her ...