Movies about climbing or that have climbing in them?

Sunny,

Does it need to be humans? Cause Frodo and Gollum do some climbing in the Lord of the Rings. The second installment if I remember correctly.
It looked mostly like 4th class stuff, but I've heard that Gollum could pull down some numbers when he roped up.

Dave Cummings wrote:K2 is the only movie I have seen where the climbing is really well done. If you haven't seen it go watch it now. It is about the first two americans to climb K2.

?? K2 the well known hollywood movie, or some climbing film/ documentary? The hollywood one is well known, and based on a 2 man one act play from about 3 years before the film. It mainly focused on the inner thoughts, lives of the 2 climbers in their struggle to survive afer a fall and injury. Even the on stage version had realism, where they created a 40 ft. high awesome styro 'ice wall to climb and the actors did real climbing with real gear. Often they called in local climbers to check for realism or gear loans to create the scene. I helped in such a way with a local Jr.college who presented K2 in their programs one year.

White Water Summer imdb.com/title/tt0094318/

Chris Drover wrote:The Cave - Trad leading underground, and I can't remember, but there might even be ice climbing, too. Oh, and mutated Spetznaz devil creatures.

That was The Descent, already mentioned. The trad climb scene looks to me as an actual "pitch", albeit in a cave over an abyss. Best depiction of rock climbing in a commercial flick.

The cave demons are a metaphor for sport climbers, btw.

The Hills Have Eyes 2. Not the 1985 sequel to Wes Craven's original movie, the 2007 sequel to the 2006 remake of the original.

It's got all kinds of sillyness for climbers to enjoy - ropes being cut, rescue rappelling with a dead body, referring to free soloing as "freestyle". Plus it's a pretty legit movie in it's own right, worth checking out if you enjoy campy horror with lots of action. A hell of a lot better than the 2006 remake that it is based off of.

Charlie Chaplin: Gold Rush
Frank Capra: Lost Horizon

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I didn't know Earl Wiggens was the filmer?!?!?!?!?!

Eiger Sanction with Clint Eastwood

Bily Graham Presents: The Climb

The climbing scenes were actually better than most of the movies already mentioned. Not great, tons of cheese, but okay, in all honesty.

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Mike Lane wrote: That was The Descent, already mentioned. The trad climb scene looks to me as an actual "pitch", albeit in a cave over an abyss. Best depiction of rock climbing in a commercial flick. The cave demons are a metaphor for sport climbers, btw.

! /;-) Being a Traddie', I can see that closing comment as true.

Mike Lane wrote:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9U0tDU37q2M

Ah yes, the Pythons take on Brit's legendary climbing cult. I've done many similar pitches as the one shown, usually very late Friday nights when leaving the pub, on local concrete.

Star Trek 5: the Final Frontier

i will let it speak for itself

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GlxzpWjM5Q8

william shatner free solo

Eiger Sanction is classic and Scream of Stone is worth watching for the Cerro Torre footage (shot on location)

Classic Seinfeld scene

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Young Frankenstein

Blade Runner

"The White Hell of Pitz Palu"

Ho, man! I got that one from the library once. Great silent film and some of the silliest acting ever. Well worth viewing. The scenes where the dripping icicles haunt the doctor are priceless. His sweetheart is frozen in the crevasse and waits for him!

Journey to the Center of the Earth (1993) - Pilot for a show that never got made...fortunately. The movie was horrible, but there's a climbing scene with a tyrolean traverse done by a sasquatch....yes, it's that bad!

Jeremy Monahan wrote:Take It To The Limit. Possibly the worst movie I have watched, this cinematic excretion redefines cheesy, and takes toproping to new heights of ridiculous. imdb.com/video/screenplay/v…

pretty extreeeme toproping

Ninja Assassin :) Tons of freesoloing