You have to wonder if Scottish director Kevin Macdonald realized, when he decided to do something different than his successful
mountain climbing documentary «Touching the Void,» what a turnabout it would be to dramatize the story of one of the great despotic leaders of the world.
(Am Limit) DVD Review by Kam Williams Headline: DVD Features Squabbling Siblings Scaling Peaks in
Mountain Climbing Documentary Thomas and Alexander Huber are world - class mountain climbers, but otherwise polar opposites.
Not exact matches
Besides photography I enjoy hiking / backpacking,
climbing mountains, writing, reading, meditation, and soon to be making
documentaries.
It's so difficult that, at least prior to this
documentary's footage, it had never been scaled successfully, even by several of the world's best
mountain climbers who've tried repeatedly, ultimately failing once they get to the precipitous «Shark's Fin» of the
mountain's central of three peaks, where
climbing is slow, the harsh climate is freezing, and the places to rest nearly nonexistent.
Rory Kennedy's
documentary, Take Every Wave, shows Hamilton pushing himself hard,
climbing waves as steep as
mountains at heights no one dared to reach.
The Audience Award: U.S.
Documentary, Presented by Acura: Meru (Directors: Jimmy Chin, E. Chai Vasarhelyi)-- Three elite
mountain climbers sacrifice everything but their friendship as they struggle through heartbreaking loss and nature's harshest elements to attempt the never - before - completed Shark's Fin on Mount Meru, the most coveted first ascent in the dangerous game of Himalayan big wall
climbing.