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Originally Posted by Engine09
Watched it this weekend. Perfect followup to Free Solo, if not equal to might be slightly better. Decent amount of Canadian content and locations.
I would recommend to anyone who has hiked in the mountains or even looked at a mountain.
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Watch this documentary in high def and with the volume cranked up. Listening to the tapping and scraping sounds of his equipment as he does his ascents is amazing.
I've watched this documentary like a half a dozen times. I rarely do that for any type of visual media. But the film does an immersion into the craft in a way that made it hard for me to look away and made me want to know more. I never understood why people did ultra long hikes and/or rock climbing/bouldering and after watching this documentary, I was like, "I get it."
It's also crazy that Marc was acknowledged by Alex Honnold in being an absolute master in his craft. I also loved how Alex acknowledged that he and Marc approached climbing in a totally different way philosophically. Alex is a pure bred competitor chasing accolades and records and Marc was a more pure bred explorer chasing dreams of an experience that few could even begin to fathom.
Alex also described how what Marc was doing was just next level, how he and Marc likely though similarly, but also different. It's insane how under the radar Marc Andre Leclerc was when he was trail blazing a new era of alpinism.