In 1968, five friends set out on a 5,000-mile road trip in a white Ford van bound for South America and the summit of Cerro Fitz Roy. They packed surfboards, skis, and climbing gear and documented the whole trip on a 16mm Bolex camera.
Rotpunkt documents the advent, the agony and the art of the redpoint through Alex Megos’s efforts to redefine the boundaries of the form.
Great short from some years back about the late Fred Beckey.
The legendary homemade film following Yvon Chouinard, Doug Tompkins, Dick Dorworth and Lito Tejada-Flores as they drive down to Patagonia and make a first ascent on Cerro Fitz Roy.
Hayden Kennedy, at age 22, makes the first ascent of Carbondale Short Bus (5.14-), one of the hardest trad lines in Indian Creek, Utah.