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.
Dina Khreino
Writer, Director
Alex Honnold
Self
Jimmy Chin
Self
Adam Ondra
Self
Tommy Caldwell
Self
Lynn Hill
Self
Conrad Anker
Self
Reinhold Messner
Self
David Lama
Self
Maureen Beck
Self
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