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In 2014, Steve Wakeford, an award-winning sports editor, fell 70 meters — about 230 feet — while scaling a mountain in the French Alps. He miraculously survived. During the long process of rehabilitation, he began to ask himself some serious questions: why do mountain climbers take these enormous risks? Is it worth it? And why, despite his injury, was he planning to climb the very same mountain, taking the very same route?
The feature-length documentary Magnetic Mountains seeks to answer these questions and explore the psychology of risk-taking through interviews with professional climbers and noted figures in Alpine sports, including Sir Chris Bonington, Tommy Caldwell, Steve House, Eva Walkner, and Liv Sansov. The film also follows Wakeford as he prepares for his next climb — and as he begins to consider that “perhaps the bigger mountains to climb are, in fact, at home.” Help produce this stunning, thought-provoking film here.
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