Working with skilled doc writer Mark Monroe (The Cove / Chasing Ice), Ryan is not only able to
convey the enormity of the
challenge, but also the universal
themes and human frailties that follow each climber.
Presented in heroic dimensions, this subject
challenged the very conventions of landscape painting, which held that biblical, historical, or mythological
themes set within idealized landscapes were alone capable of
conveying significant moral or intellectual meaning and thus suited to grandeur of scale.