Eddie Bauer - Freeing The Verdon Gorge drops you onto the towering limestone walls of southern France with free climbers Katie Lambert and Caroline George. In this short, transportive film from Cheyne Lempe, the pair chase proud lines above the river-cut void of the Verdon, taking on classic, delicate routes where exposure is constant and the climbing demands calm precision.
What makes it worth watching is the mix of beauty and bite: sunlit stone, dizzying drop-offs, and the quiet tension of run-out sequences that echo an earlier era of airy sport climbing. With standout objectives like Surveiller et Punir and Pichenibule, the film pairs high-grade movement with an honest look at fear management and commitment—best experienced with headphones on as you get pulled into the rhythm of the gorge.
In this short, electrifying clip from Patagonia’s Dawn Wall film crew, watch Tommy Caldwell tackle Pitch 15 on Yosemite’s El Capitan—an infamously hard, razor-edged section on the route that he and Kevin Jorgeson would go on to free climb in a historic first ascent. Filmed in the final days of a seven-year effort, this is a focused glimpse into the precision, pain tolerance, and composure required when the rock offers almost nothing and the consequences are enormous.
What makes it unmissable is the intimate perspective: four distinct camera angles that let you study every micro-adjustment as Caldwell stands on precarious smears and crimping holds so small and sharp they look unreal, with 1,300 feet of air yawning beneath him. Even if you’ve heard the story, seeing the crux unfold move by move turns legend into lived experience—pure, high-stakes free climbing captured with clarity, tension, and awe.
Long considered impossible, the Fitz Traverse draws an audacious line across Patagonia’s most iconic skyline: Cerro Fitz Roy and its satellite peaks. In this short film from Patagonia, Tommy Caldwell and Alex Honnold seize a rare weather window to attempt the four-mile, 13,000-foot traverse of snow- and ice-covered rock—linking summits with complex route finding, exposure, and relentless rappels in a committing alpine setting.
Worth watching for its pure sense of scale and consequence, this is big-mountain climbing distilled into seven intense minutes. You’ll get a front-row look at what it takes to move efficiently through constantly changing terrain, manage risk when retreat is hard, and keep going when the margin for error is thin—plus the rare chemistry of two of the sport’s most driven partners working as one above the clouds.
