Movies and TvShows featuring "free-climbing" theme.
Sport climbing is a sport that makes use of both the body and the brain to climb walls. Kasahara Konomi, a master at puzzles, just happens to discover her school’s climbing wall, and it looks almost like a colorful sort of puzzle in her eyes. This fateful encounter brings big changes to Konomi’s life! With her teammates in the Hanamiya Girls’ High School Climbing Club, Konomi races for the top in this passionate climbing story!
When best friends Becky and Hunter find themselves stuck at the top of a 2,000-foot TV tower after a high-rise climb gone wrong, they must rely on their dwindling resources and ingenuity to survive. As they struggle to find a way down, they face physical and emotional challenges that test the limits of their friendship and their will to live.
Kelly, a climber, captures the murder of her best friend on camera and becomes the target of a group of friends who want to destroy the evidence. She climbs up a mountain cliff for safety but becomes trapped with the killers just 20 feet away.
Follow the incredible journey of a free solo climber as he attempts to conquer the sheer face of El Capitan in Yosemite National Park without the use of ropes or safety equipment. This gripping documentary explores the physical and mental challenges he faces and the risks he takes in pursuit of his passion.
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.
In the 1980s, Patrick Edlinger, nicknamed "Le Blond", painted with the grace of a poet the first chapter in the world history of free climbing. In his hands, marginal exercise has become a real lifestyle, carrying a message of freedom. His famous solos, beyond the proven feat they represent, bear witness to this. Life at Your Fingertips, the first internationally known climbing film, touched and inspired by generations of climbers; Edlinger was one of the meteors that shone light on the cliffs of the world by following the trajectory of a single idea: to be free to live only by "climbing". Yet the man capable of concessions in the face of the necessities of life (competitions, advertisements) and pressure from the media, his public and the desires he aroused.
Boulders in Valais presents the canton of Valais in Switzerland, its bouldering climbing spots and some of its historical and current actors and driving forces including Lucien Abbet, Benoît Dorsaz, Fred Nicole, Dave Graham... Frédéric and François Nicole gives us spectacular demonstrations of this sport, showing us routes like "Radja", the world's first 8b+. A topo-video part contains 28 climbing sites with a geographical map, and more than 160 video sequences for as many chosen blocks... more than 2h30 of climbing.
For nearly three years, director Dina Khreino interviewed world-class mountain climbing athletes, listening to what compels them to leave behind families, friends, and everyday comforts to risk everything for a fleeting glimpse into the unknown. What she found was a tribe, a diverse group of professional adventurers and amateur philosophers forged by the ultimate test of body, mind, and spirit. In the face of shifting winds, sheer granite cliffs, and impossible odds, they climb. Each for their own reason, but every one connected by the vertical world. In this rarefied air, these athletes are fundamentally changed, not just as climbers, but as human beings.
Four experienced mountaineers climb the three floors of the Eiffel Tower through the pillars of the building. A police officer, overwhelmed by the events, does not succeed in arresting the intrepid who reach the summit with agility under the stunned eyes of tourists. They then abseil and happily throw themselves into the Seine to celebrate the feat.
Reel Rock 16 contains the best documentaries of the year: BRIDGE BOYS: Tom Randall, a horizontal big-wall adventure on the longest, hardest, and most ridiculous crack climb ever attempted. (28 min) BAREFOOT CHARLES: An opera-singing Charles Albert, cave-dwelling, animal-skinning minimalist tackles futuristic boulder problems in the Fontainebleau forest. (28 min) BIG THINGS TO COME: Elite climber Alex Johnson's struggle with a boulder problem propels her on a decade-long journey of self-discovery. (21 min) CUDDLE: Experience Alex Honnold, Tommy Caldwell, and Adam Stack in a massive, remote link-up of 17 alpine summits that pushes the world's best climbers to the brink - and into each other's shivering arms. (34 min)
Return2Sender is a captivating adventure documentary that takes viewers on a thrilling journey through the Sierra Nevada range in the United States. The film follows a group of climbers as they tackle challenging climbs in the rocky mountains, showcasing the beauty and excitement of free climbing, trad climbing, and other forms of extreme climbing. From the iconic Joshua Tree National Park to the breathtaking landscapes of the Sierra Nevada, this film pushes the boundaries of human potential in the world of rock climbing.
In a vertiginous sequence, Claude Lelouch's camera follows Patrick Edlinger climbing with his bare hands one of the routes of the spectacular Cimaï cliff. The action takes place in the Consensus voice (7c+/8a+) at the Cimaï quarry. In a place large enough where Claude Lelouch had been able to take out his crane to make a vertical trip. Later, in 2013, the foot of the Consensus route will experience landslides, the climbing sector has since been prohibited by municipal decree, huge blocks threatening to fall.
In this film, following in the footsteps of Patrick Edlinger, Christian and Olivier build the legendary roof of La Piade (Toulon, France) solo in deep water. Up to 18 m high, the two climbers are keen to work the route without a rope. The Piade site appears in the first minutes of the film “La Vie Au Bout Des Doigts” by Jean-Paul Janssen. At a height of 15m, after several summers of work, Olivier is one of the rare local climbers to have completed this route. Today, it is Christian who is taking on this same challenge. The two climbers are keen to work it without the help of a rope. After each fall, they must start the route from the beginning. Guided by his elder, the film recounts Christian's progression and success on the path. It is also the story of their friendship and the joy they share together, suspended, “at their fingertips”. Determined, Christian works the route in summer, as in winter, despite the sometimes unpredictable conditions.