PG-13 | 1h 32m | Sport, Documentary | 2021 Rock climbing and alpinism have exploded into the public consciousness since climbing’s Yosemite Valley golden era of the late 1960s. The groundbreaking climbers of those days were a peculiar type of long-haired, unwashed hippies, with killer abs, Popeye forearms, and Spiderman lats. And unlike their soft-male ’70s counterparts, they were hard men with inner grit and supreme mental toughness.
The evolution of climbing styles and ethics has shifted around, at first ditching the adventurous spirit of Yosemite’s (trad climbing) halcyon days, to the safety of sport climbing, with all manner of subcultures and genres sprouting, such as “freebasing.”…