ROTPUNKT: Alex Megos and the Art of the Redpoint [Trailer]
Rotpunkt documents the advent, the agony and the art of the redpoint through Alex Megos’s efforts to redefine the boundaries of the form.
Rotpunkt documents the advent, the agony and the art of the redpoint through Alex Megos’s efforts to redefine the boundaries of the form.
"Most modern reproducers of life, even including the camera, really repudiate it. We gulp down evil, choke at good."
---Wallace Stevens
The 25th overall repeat of Wolfgang Güllich's 1991 benchmark 9a (5.14d), located in the Frankenjura, Germany.
Kurt Albert defined free climbing and took it to the remote mountains of the world. Behind the stories of wild adventures and great deeds, there was something exemplary in the life cut short.
Action Directe was the first 5.14d in the world.