Big Up - Bouldering in the Gunks

The true story of Joe Simpson and Simon Yates' disastrous and nearly-fatal mountain climb of 6,344m Siula Grande in the Cordillera Huayhuash in the Peruvian Andes in 1985.

Runtime

1h 46m

Director

Kevin Macdonald

Cast

Brendan Mackey, Nicholas Aaron, Ollie Ryall

The Sharp End is an adrenaline-soaked journey up the world's most challenging walls: the French Alps, the Eiger, the Utah desert, the Diamond of Colorado, Indian Kashmir, Yosimite Granite, and the sandstone spires of the Czech Republic. Run-out routes, scary high-ball boulder problems, ice-covered alpine walls and all-or-nothing free-s...

Runtime

1h 3m

Director

Peter Mortimer, Nick Rosen

Cast

Hank Caylor, Johnny Copp, Micah Dash

An international team of climbers ascends Mt. Everest in the spring of 1996. The film depicts their lengthy preparations for the climb, their trek to the summit, and their successful return to Base Camp. It also shows many of the challenges the group faced, including avalanches, lack of oxygen, treacherous ice walls, and a deadly blizz...

Runtime

44m

Director

David Breashears, Greg MacGillivray

Cast

Liam Neeson, Ed Viesturs, Tracy Pfau

Multi-award winning E11 tells the story behind the first ascent of Rhapsody, a route considered to be the hardest traditional rock climb in the world. Told in an offbeat dramadoc style the film attempts to understand what it takes to climb a route of this standard and strives to get inside the head of its first ascentionist, the unders...

Runtime

54m

Director

Paul Diffley

Cast

Dave MacLeod, Claire Macleod

Movie about David Lama climbing the Patagonian mountain Cerro Torre for the first time free, a mountain that has been dubbed the most difficult to climb in the world.

Runtime

1h 41m

Director

Thomas Dirnhofer

Cast

David Lama, Peter Ortner, Toni Ponholzer