ABYSS - North America's Highest Bouldering
ABYSS - North America’s Highest Bouldering drops you into Colorado’s thin-air frontier, where secret alpine stone and big ambitions collide. From Louder Than Eleven, this 47-minute film follows the exploration and development of high-elevation climbing above the Front Range, tracing the lines, the characters, and the growing controversy around secrecy, style, and the ethics of putting new routes on the map—building toward a headline-making first ascent at altitude. What makes ABYSS so gripping is that it’s not just about hard moves; it’s about the culture that forms around them. With a stacked cast of climbers and candid commentary from across the community, it captures the push-and-pull between adventure and preservation, personal vision and shared responsibility. Expect moody mountain atmosphere, sharp storytelling, and the kind of debate that lingers after the credits—perfect if you like your climbing films with both intensity and ideas.
Louder Than Eleven · 47:33
ABYSS, the latest viral film from Louder Than Eleven, provides an insider's look at rock climbing development. Exploration of secret, alpine climbing terrain high above Colorado's Front Range has created a flurry of debate regarding the philosophy, secrecy and ethics of development. Culminating in Ben Spannuth's FA of one of the world's highest elevation 5.14s, ABYSS opens the floodgates of passionate debate within the climbing community. The scandal unfolds in this 48-minute piece, featuring such climbing talents as Paige Claassen, Matty Hong, Chris Schulte, Mayan Smith-Gobat, Dave Wetmore and Matt Wilder and narrated by Jon Glassberg. Additional commentary from the insightful minds of Peter Beal, Herman Feissner, Joe Kinder, Brady Robinson, Ben Scott, Chris Sharma, John Sherman, and Clark Shelk. Louder Than Eleven is a Boulder based production company specializing in outdoor media to promote the sport of rock climbing by creating captivating action entertainment. lt11.com abyss.lt11.com facebook.com/louderthan11 twitter.com/louderthan11 Music Immune System - "Gehenna" - myspace.com/immunesystem/music Milyoo -- "Classic" -- Lexington, KY -- soundcloud.com/milyoo Immune System -- "The Orme" Abel Okugawa - "Milk" abelokugawa.com Milyoo -- "Phoenix" Chaptabois - "Walk" - Facebook.com/Chaptabois Milyoo -- "Multitude" Milyoo -- "Pully" Yosemite Music - "102" - soundcloud.com/yosemite-music Immune System -- "Initiation" Milyoo -- "Classic Refix" Milyoo -- "Takedown" Louis W T Buick (Lucky Cub) -- "92" - soundcloud.com/lucky-cub Milyoo -- "You are You" Louis W T Buick (Lucky Cub) -- "EXX" Yosemite Music -- "Water" Neon Highwire - "Isometric View (Novelty Music Scene Mix)" - neonhighwire.com/ The Slow Waves -- "Underbelly" - facebook.com/theslowwaves - theslowwaves.com