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The Sanctity of Space

Directed by: RENAN OZTURK, FREDDIE WILKINSON
Runtime: 1hr 42min Year: 2022
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Directed by: RENAN OZTURK, FREDDIE WILKINSON
Runtime: 1hr 42min Year: 2022
Country: United States
Topics: Sport
Last Screened: Fri 11th Mar 2022

Inspired by the late American explorer and photographer Brad Washburn, climbing buddies Renan Ozturk and Freddie Wilkinson settle on an audacious plan to scale Mount Denali in Alaska.

More than eighty years after Brad Washburn first photographed Denali in Alaska, climbing buddies Renan Ozturk and Freddie Wilkinson look at some of Washburn’s images and have this crazy idea: rather than go up, their dream is to go sideways — across the range’s most forbidding peaks, the Moose’s Tooth massif.

It’s a decidedly new school way to explore the same landscape Washburn first discovered. As they pioneer the route over the course of two expeditions, enduring freezing bivvies, cut ropes, and rockfall along the way, their desire to be the first to complete the audacious line grows into an obsession.