Best climbing documentation: 25 large stories
Best climbing documentation: 25 large stories
The best climbing documentaries show the best climbers in the world that measure their skills with the toughest climbs in the world
Recently we looked at two great climbing documentaries: the celebrated Free Solo (2018) in our local cinema and then The Dawn Wall (2018) on Netflix.
Both films focus on tests on the El Capitan from Yosemite over different routes and with different climbing styles.
While Alex Honnolds Free Solo of El Capitan was perhaps the most dizzying film we have ever seen, it was the human story behind Tommy Caldwell in the Dawn Wall that we found.
In my opinion, the best climbing documentation should offer exciting entertainment, combined with touching stories about human nature, which is confronted with adversity and so often tragedies.
The Dawn Wall with its tender insights into Caldwell's personal fighting did exactly that and was much more than just a terrifying climb.
Inspired by these two films I have put together a list (in no specific order) of the best climbing documentation. They cover everything, from classic California climbing tours to Herculic height attacks.
The best climbing documentation
| 1. | Meru (2015) The alpinists Conrad Anker, Jimmy Chin and Renan Ozturk try to climb the shark fin on Mount Meru, a 21,000 foot summit in northern India and the ultimate challenge in the high-stakes world of the Big-Wall climbing. |
| 2. | Sherpa (2015) Sherpa draws Everest history from a rarely seen perspective and subtly asks the question: Is the continued foreign obsession of Everest bad for Nepal, Khumbu and the Sherpas? |
| 3. | DESTILD (2013) Mountaineers have been using Scotland for a long time in winter to train for Himalaya expeditions. As a mixture of "real" technical winter climbing and personal story, Distledlled examines what makes climbing so effective there. |
| 4. | the epic of everest (1924) The official documentation of the legendary Everest expedition from 1924 was lovingly restored by the British Film Institute (BFI) and is probably the first climbing documentation in general. The film material was rotated with a hand crank camera under rough conditions and shows some of the earliest records about life in Tibet. |
| 5. | The Wildest Dream: Conquest of Everest (2010) A documentary that examines the secrets about the death of mountaineers George Mallory and Andrew Sandy Irvine at Everest in 1924. Conrad Anker traces her journey and tries to answer some of the questions about Mallory's death. |
| 6. | The Beckoning Silence (2007) Joe Simpson travels to the tricken north wall of the Eiger to tell the story of one of the most epic tragedies of mountaineering. It was this story that suggested Simpson's imagination for the first time and inspired him to start mountaineering. |
| 7. | everest (1998) This Imax film with giant screen was shot during the notorious storm in 1996, which demanded eight lives. It documents the shattering rescue efforts of the filmmakers to help surviving members of the unfortunate group. |
| 8. | The Man Who Skied Down Everest (1975) This Oscar-winning documentary tells the story behind the attempt by Japanese daredevil Yuichiro Miura in 1970 to drove down the highest mountain in the world with skis-after climbing it. Six members of Miura's team died during the ascent, which forms the backbone of a large part of the moving drama of the film. |
| 9. | Valley Uprising (2014) An alternative interpretation of the climbing counterculture lifestyle by Yosemite. The 90-minute documentary examines the 60-year legacy of the revolutionary climbing and its flowering (albeit sometimes controversial) counterculture. |
| 10. | Free Solo (2018) The celebrated climber Alex Honnold is preparing to climb the 1,000 m high El Capitan in the Yosemite without rope. The Outside Magazine declared Free Solo about the "best climbing film of all time". |
| 11. | Cerro Torre: Snowballs Chance in Hell (2014) After more than three years of experiment, the Austrian sports climber David Lama finally realized his dream to climb the notorious compressor route at the Cerro Torre in Patagonia. Tragically, Lama died in an avalanche in Canada this year. |
| 12. | Beyond the Edge (2013) This documentary drama tells the first everest conqueror from Hillary and Norgay. The film records the tricky conditions that were suffered during the expedition of 1953, and uses industrial and archive material to tell the event that should amaze the world. |
| 13. | Blindssight (2006) A captivating adventure of six blind Tibetan teenagers who open up to climb the 23,000 foot Lhakpa Ri on the north side of Mount Everest. The trip will soon become an apparently impossible challenge. |
| 14. | The Summit (2012) In one of the best mountaineering films, the filmmaker Nick Ryan interviews the survivors of the 2008 K2 expedition and, together with film material recorded on the mountain, offers an insight into the reasons why 11 people were killed. |
| fifteen. | The Dawn Wall (2018) In 2015, the American climbers Tommy Caldwell and Kevin Jorgeson fascinated the world with their attempt to climb a 1,000 m high rock wall in the Yosemite. The couple lived on the vertical cliff for weeks and lit an insane global media attention. |
| 16. | Touching the Void (2003) Simpsons and Yates' meanwhile notorious Tortur is being replaced on the Peruvian Siula Grande. The documentary drama is absolutely captivating and the urgent interviews give this exciting cinema piece an emotional depth. |
| 17. | DIRTBAG: The legend of Fred Beckey Fred Beckey, who was celebrated as one of the most productive and influential climbers of all time, conquered more undisturbed peaks than any other in history and was perhaps just as known as a pioneer of the free-range American "dirtbag". ,Lifestyle. This film examines both tricks. |
| 18. | Mountain (2018) Mountain, a visually exciting film with a story by Willem Dafoe, takes the audience to the summits of some of the most beautiful mountains in the world, from Tibet to Australia, from Norway to Alaska. |
| 19. | Dark Glow of the Mountains (1984) In this TV documentary, filmmaker Werner Herzog accompanied the mountaineers Hans Kammerlander and the legendary Reinhold Messner at their expedition in 1984 to climb the 8,000 m high gasherbrum mountains. At that time they were considered some of the most difficult peaks. |
| 20. | Messner (2004) In the first documentary on Messner since the duke film mentioned, the climber of the same name looks back on his career with surprising openness and self-revelation. His solo climb of Everest without bottle oxygen in 1980 was described by Jon Krakauer as "the greatest mountaineering performance of all time". |
| 21. | Alone on the Wall (2010) The 23-year-old Alex Honnold tries on the 610 m high wall of the Half Dome, which at that time was the greatest free solo that was ever tried. The climb brought the high-stakes sport of free solo climbing to new heights-heights that Alex would later climb even higher. |
| 22. | The Alps (2007) on the steep rock and ice wall, which is known as Eiger, is an American mountaineer shortly before the most dangerous and most important climb that he has ever taken: an attempt to climb the legendary mountain that has taken his famous father. |
| 23. | K2 and the Invisible Footmen (2015) K2 and the Invisible Footmen documents the unsung efforts of Pakistani High Barrel (Haps), which have enabled the second highest mountain on earth for decades. In front of a breathtaking backdrop, this documentary explores the courage and willingness to sacrifice of the men who call the "Wild Berg" their home. |
| 24. | cold (2011) for over 26 years, 16 expeditions have tried and failed to climb one of the 8,000 peak Pakistan in winter. In 2011 three men became the first. She almost killed the trip. This 19-minute documentary is your story, seen by the raw, honest perspective of the lens of a team member. |
| 25. | Bonington Mountainer (2017) The life story of one of the most popular and successful British mountaineers could have been much longer. Instead, the 80-minute documentation focuses on the most groundbreaking and most important expeditions of its long and illustrious climbing career. |
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