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
Jimmy Chin
Adam Ondra
Tommy Caldwell
Lynn Hill
Conrad Anker
Reinhold Messner
David Lama
Maureen Beck
Leo Houlding
Hilaree Nelson
Emily Harrington
Erik Weihenmayer
Pasang Lhamu Akita
Pemba Gyalje
Angelica Rainer
Lai Chi Wai
Steph Davis