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Fiction    Push For The Summit

* VD  - 
*** VD Cliff Hanger - (Action, R) Sly Stallone and his bolt gun run amuck.
** VD Into Thin Air: Death on Everest - (Drama, PG) Made for TV movie of the Jon Krakauer book by the same title.
**** VD The Eiger Sanction - (Action, R) Clint Eastwood plays James Bond on the Eiger in the Swiss Alps
**** VD The Mountain - (Drama) Exciting mountaineering action tops this morality play about two brothers in a poor Alpine village and their vastly different reactions to the crash of a luxury airliner on a nearby peak.
**** BK Australian The Rope Dancer - A tale of mountaineering gone wrong, injury and recovery, and the search for meaning through living dangerously.
** VD Vertical Limit - (Action, PG) K2 & Nitroglycerin don't mix.

Narratives    Push For The Summit

**** BK Annapurna - First Conquest of an 8000-Meter Peak
***** BK Beckoning Silence, The - An assault on the North Face of the Eiger and thoughts on the dark side of mountaineering.
**** BK Big Walls: Breakthroughs on the Free-Climbing Frontier - Paul Piana's account of his & Todd Skinner's Big Wall climbs. Inc 93 color photos.
***** BK Boardman Tasker Omnibus, The - Savage Arena, the Shining Mountain, Sacred Summits, Everest the Cruel Way
***** BK Dark Shadows Falling - Joe Simpson wonders if the essence of the sport has been completely lost.
***** BK Deep Play - A Climber's Odyssey from Llanberis to the Big Walls
**** BK Epic - Stories Of Survival From World's Highest Peaks
**** BK Australian Expeditions - Get inside the skull of Andrew Lindblade
** BK Fatal Mountaineer - Life story of Willi Unsoeld, American Himalayan climber
**** BK Flame of Adventure, The - Yates shares his perspective on climbing styles, personal experiences & cultures encountered in his travels.
**** BK Games Climbers Play, The - Large climbing anthology. Draws material from climbing periodicals.
***** BK High - Stories of Survival from Everest and K2.
*** BK Into Thin Air - A Personal Account of the 1996 Mount Everest Disaster
*** BK Kiss or Kill - Confessions of a Serial Climber - A collection of short articles Twight has had printed in a variety of publications, which have comments from the author following each.
*** BK Kurt Diemberger Omnibus, The - Includes Summits and Secrets: The Endless Knot: Spirits of the Air
* BK Left For Dead - Beck Weather's extraordinary story about his survival from the 1996 Mt Everest tragedy
*** BK Regions of the Heart - The Triumph and Tragedy of Alison Hargreaves
***** BK Australian Sheer Will - The Awe Inspiring Climbs of Mike Groom. Includes 73 colour photos.
**** BK Starlight and Storm - From the 1920s to the 1950s, the race for first ascents in the Alps and Dolomites
***** BK This Game of Ghosts - Climber Joe Simpson reveals a lifetime of flirtation with danger
**** BK Australian Totem Pole, The - Devestating accident while climbing Tasmania's famous sea stack.
*** BK Touching My Father's Soul - A Sherpa's Journey to the Top of Everest by the climbing leader for the IMAX 96 team
***** BK Touching the Void - The Harrowing First Person Account Of One Man's Miraculous Survival
*** BK View from the Summit - The life story of Sir Edmund Hillary. Autobiography
***** BK White Spider, The - The Classic Account of the Ascent of the Eiger
***** BK Wildest Dream, The - The Biography of George Mallory
*** BK Within Reach: My Everest Story - Pfetzer, 18 at the time of publication, describes his summits of a number of peaks worthy of a climber twice his age

Non-Fiction    Push For The Summit

***** DV 14 Peaks: Nothing is Impossible - World Record ascent of all 14 8000ers in 6 months by Nepalese mountaineers
*** DV A Colorado Daydream - This Film profiles the balancing act of 'real life' vs. climbing. Filmed in some of the best scenery the Rocky Mountains have to offer, and featuring problems that are both aesthetic and difficult.
**** BK A Life in the Vertical - A biography of Wolfgang Gullich
*** DV Best of the West - Bouldering
*** VD Between The Rain - (Doco) Bouldering, deepwater soloing, onsight climbing, gritstone ground-up climbing, cragging, soloing, and big wall free climbing
***** VD Black Lung - (Doco) Ben Moon and Jerry Moffatt's visit to Utah Bouldering
***** VD B-Sides, The - (Doco) - One year of climbing across the nation.
*** DV Centre of the Universe - Yosemite
***** BK Classic Rock - Climbing in the UK with large format photography. A best seller.
*** VD Climb International - (Doco) Climbing in Southeast Asia from China to Thailand
**** VD Australian Coming At Ya Hyper - (Doco) Australian Sport Climbing
**** VD Dartmoor Bouldering 365 - (Doco) Films of bouldering on Dartmoor
**** DV Dosage (Volume 1) - (Doco) High-end sport climbing & bouldering
**** VD Australian Eos - (Doco) Four of Australia's best young climbers sport climbing and bouldering in New Zealand
**** DV Everest (IMAX) - (Doco) Follows the IMAX team's ascent of Everest in 96
**** VD Face, The - (Doco) Climbs in six of the world's most spectacular mountain locations. As shown on the BBC.
***** VD First Ascent - The latest and greatest release from Sender Films.
*** VD Free Hueco! - (Doco) Boulderers. Terrifying topouts and gut wrenching falls.
*** DV Friction Addiction Black Hills Gold - (Doco) Brings you an amazing summer of daring runouts and highball first ascents from the sharp end of South Dakota's Black Hills
**** VD Friction: A Joshua Tree Bouldering Tour - (Doco) A collection of 39 boulder problems
**** DV Front Range Freaks - (Doco) A varied film following some of Colorados top climbers.
***** VD Hard Grit - (Doco) British climbing the gritstone edges of the Pennines
** VD Inertia - (Doco) See Chris Sharma, Joe Brooks, Dave Struthers, etc cranking hard
**** VD Inertia 2: Focus - (Doco) The best climbers & hardest routes in the world
*** VD Australian Low Gravity - B grade 90's Australian Climbing Video
**** VD Masters Of Stone - (Doco) Climbing in Smith Rock, Yosemite Valley, American Fork, Tuolumne Meadows
**** VD Masters Of Stone 3 - Third Stone From The Sun - (Doco) 5.14c redpoints in France, boulder at Hueco Tanks and Yosemite
**** VD Masters Of Stone 5 - (Doco) Speed-Soloing, High-Ball Bouldering, Female Freesoloing, Blind Crack Climbing, Slacklining, Rope Freefalling
**** VD Painted Spider - (Doco) Rock climbing in the 90s. Long free routes, sport climbing, competetion climbing, bouldering, soloing.
**** VD Real Thing, The - (Doco) Bouldering with Ben Moon and Jerry Moffatt in England and Fontainebleau
**** DV Red River Ruckus - Sport climbing in Red River Gorge, Kentucky, USA
***** BK Australian Rock Climbing In Australia - Stunning coffee table book of photographs
*** VD Shut Up And Climb - (Doco) Bouldering in Southern California, Ibex, Joe's Valley, Hueco Tanks, and Fontainebleau
***** VD Solo - (Doco) Shows what climbing was like in the old days.
**** VD Solutions - (Doco) Bouldering in Northern Colorado
**** VD Southern Slopers - (Doco) Top boulderers in northern Alabama
**** DV Stick It - (Doco) Shows the UK bouldering scene.
***** DV Touching the Void - The movie of the popular book by Joe Simpson.

Instructional    Push For The Summit

**** BK Climbing Anchors - How to Rock Climb Series
***** BK Downward Bound: A Mad! Guide to Rock Climbing - Introduction to climbing, history, and lots of humour.
**** BK Extreme Alpinism - Physical, psychological, and technical aspects of alpine climbing at the bleeding edge
***** BK Performance Rock Climbing - Training for climbing
*** DV Pro Tips Volume One - Professional climbers share their tricks of the trade.
**** VD Rock Climbing Skills: The Basics & Beyond - (Doco) Basic equipment and techniques, hand, foot and body control, etc.

123 of 178 books, 127 of 203 movies reviewed. 562 total reviews.

 

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