The Dawn Wall (2017)

Directed by

Josh Lowell, Peter Mortimer

Genre

documentary film

Country

Austria, United States

Runtime

1h 40m

Rated

NR

Rating

8.0 of 10 from 354 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Two climbers try to climb a very difficult rock face using only their hands and feet. The film follows their years of planning and the physical challenges they face.

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What happens

The Dawn Wall is a 2017 American-Austrian documentary film directed by Josh Lowell and Peter Mortimer about Tommy Caldwell and Kevin Jorgeson's successful attempt to create the first-ever big wall free climbing route—which they christened The Dawn Wall—on the historic southeast face (The Wall of Early Morning Light) of El Capitan in Yosemite National Park, which had hitherto only been ascended by aid climbing techniques first pioneered by Warren Harding who made the first aided ascent of the face in 1970. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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