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.
Alex Honnold
as Self
Jimmy Chin
as Self
Adam Ondra
as Self
Tommy Caldwell
as Self
Lynn Hill
as Self
Conrad Anker
as Self
Reinhold Messner
as Self
David Lama
as Self
Maureen Beck
as Self
Leo Houlding
as Self
Hilaree Nelson
as Self
Emily Harrington
as Self
