
Geronimo1967
With an array of climbing equipment and what looks like their own body weight in bottled water, Michael Farrell and Russell McLean embark on an overnight climb up the sharp and steep rock face of a Yosemite peak in the baking sunshine. Their own narration helps explain some of the techniques used with rope, piton and crampon style climbing and thats quite informative. Its really the photography, though, that delivers here - and if youre at all acro/agoraphobic then maybe you shouldnt bother. The camerawork is remarkably stable, well focussed and its creatively edited together to give us quite a breathless sense of just how onerous this climb is and of how skilful these two men are at getting up this unforgiving and sometimes quite brittle s...