In the shady campgrounds of Yosemite valley, climbers carved out a counterculture lifestyle of dumpster-diving and wild parties that clashed with the conservative values of the National Park Service. And up on the walls, generation after generation has pushed the limits of climbing, vying amongst each other for supremacy on Yosemite's cliffs. "Valley Uprising" is the riveting, unforgettable tale of this bold rock climbing tradition in Yosemite National Park: half a century of... (Full plot summary below)
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In the shady campgrounds of Yosemite valley, climbers carved out a counterculture lifestyle of dumpster-diving and wild parties that clashed with the conservative values of the National Park Service. And up on the walls, generation after generation has pushed the limits of climbing, vying amongst each other for supremacy on Yosemite's cliffs. "Valley Uprising" is the riveting, unforgettable tale of this bold rock climbing tradition in Yosemite National Park: half a century of struggle against the laws of gravity -- and the laws of the land.
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| User ReviewJudge LOutstanding - one of the finest rock climbing documentaries I've ever seen. |
| User ReviewJames Bvery good show, told the very amazing story of the rock climbing culture in Yosemite . made me wish i was able to do some of that, it just looked so freeing. |
| User ReviewJoe POne of the best rock climbing employees was featured near the end of the movie with a big ol' smile, his name is Dan and worked for DNC in the Mountaineering Shop. Dan is the shit, btw! Awesome movie Sender! |
| User ReviewBenni BOne of my all-time favorite documentaries. It's informative, fascinating, funny and above all else gets me the hell excited for climbing. |
| User ReviewEvan MPeter Sarsgaard narrates this brilliant, beautifully shot doc on the history of Rock Climbing in Yosemite. Some dizzying views even from the comforts of your own home, especially with a great TV. By the end, you really get to see how the sport has evolved since its inception. Alex Honnold is bionic!!! |
| User ReviewElizabeth MValley Uprising cuenta la historia de los inicios de la escalada en el famosos Yosemite. Es interesante ver como ha crecido la escalada, porque en esos tiempos - estamos hablando de fines de los 50´s - este deporte sólo atraía a desadaptados y rebeldes, porque quien en su sano juicio dedicaría tanto esfuerzo y tiempo, y en ciertos casos arriesgar su vida para subir rocas? Hoy en día el auge ha llevado a la creación de gimnasios de escalada y al salto a la fama de escaladores como Adam Ondra y James Caldwell. Las condiciones eran distintas en esa época. Era más puro por decirlo de alguna manera. Las herramientas más rudimentarias y no existían los patrocinantes. A pesar de esto, se lograron hazañas increíbles. La época de oro fue liderada por Royal Robbins y Warren Harding, y su rivalidad los hizo legendarios. Y desde ahí vienen nuevas generaciones de escaladores quienes inspirados por las proezas logradas, decidieron romper nuevos récords, especialmente Lynn Hill quien fue la primera escaladora en realizar el free ascent en El Capitan. Y llegamos a la última generación que incluye a Alex Honnold, quien ha redefinido lo que se creía imposible. Antes paredes que tomaban semanas y hasta meses en subir, son subidas en sólo horas, y no solo eso, sino que sin protección alguna, la especialidad de Honnold. Es fascinante ver el progreso que ha tenido el deporte y Valley Uprising logra un documental completo, lleno de anécdotas, documentos que nos recuerdan lo que fue y lo que viene. |
| User ReviewJens SGreat documentary about the history of rock climbing that started in Yosemite Valley. For an era that had little more than photographs, the film uses decent effects to make the images come to life. Later, the film footage is spectacular. Especially some of the modern day scenes of extreme sports make you dizzy with vertigo even on your couch. An interesting story, slightly biased towards the rebel figures as opposed to authorities, but well worth the watch anyway. |
| User ReviewAnna FValley Uprising: How Hobos Made Climbing into a Popular Sport The Valley Uprising captures the spirit of rebellion and freedom most of us feel in our childhood but lose as we grow into careers. This is an inspiring documentary that starts in the 1950s and follows generations of mythic climbers in Yosemite Valley through to the present day. The Yosemite Valley national park had few regulations in the 1950s, which meant that climbers could live near the mountain for many years. They found food with the help of John Salathe (1899-1992), who had been climbing since 1945, and now taught the younger climbers how to forge for dinner in the park's meadows. Because they lived on the site, they could gradually climb a few feet in a given day, without feeling rushed because of camping fees or other costs. This allowed them to develop all sorts of innovations to make climbing more of a science that could be mastered for future generations. They tried to hammer in spikes into the side of the mountain. They tried large climbing parties, and going solo. A couple of generations into it, climbers could scale the mountain in a couple of hours, whereas the first climbers needed over a year to complete the vertical climb. In the last few decades, free climbing without harnesses, robes and other safety measures has become popular, as well as cliff diving or gliding off the top of the mountain and then landing with a parachute. This is a very education description of the progression of the climbing sport and I was surprised to find that all these innovations happened at Yosemite. Fig. 4. Pioneer Yosemite valley climbers, resting in the middle of a climb. The climbers give very honest explanations for their motivations: "None of us expected to have a job. We were going to be hobos forever, and that was the extent of it." Without intending to cash in, at one point they found out about a plane from South America loaded with marijuana crashing on top of one of the peaks. They worked together to retrieve the pot and then used or sold it at a profit that afforded the bulk of them a comfortable life away from the mountain that kept them from continuing to live as hobos. A taste for money encouraged some of the climbers to court media attention and to compete in climbing tournaments for money. So that some ended up leaving Yosemite to pursue these goals. But new generations kept coming because Yosemite remained one of the most challenging climbs in North America: "Ballsy stuff to get up there, like you're going to the moon or something..." Later park rules restrained climbers to only being allowed in Yosemite for 7 days out of a year, which forced climbers to avoid troopers by sleeping at the side of the road outside of the park. Great climbers kept coming back to the park because this was where a climbing hobby could become a career: "The idea of devoting your life to climbing didn't exist anywhere else.... Only through climbing can you find yourself, bullshit like that..." The film is made up of archival photographs and videos, as well as new interviews with pioneer climbers. Photos are animated and combined with interesting narration and music that makes this an interesting watching experience, even for those who have never even climbed a wall in a gym. Fig. 5. John Bachar, south Californian, climbing Yosemite. I was pretty shocked that the climbers confessed to doing acid, pot and alcohol during climbs, but then again perhaps somebody has to be intoxicated to go up a mountain, risking death. In fact, at least one of the climbers described did end up dying: John Bachar (1957-2009), a south Californian climber who invented the Bachar ladder. He had dropped out of UCLA to start climbing full-time from the 1970s until his death on July 5, 2009 at the Dike Wall in California. He was certainly extremely charismatic in his youths, and his relatively early death in this sport added a realistic, bitter and tragic note to an otherwise uplifting uprising. Fig. 6. Lynn Hill, pioneer woman climber going for a record. The story of how Lynn Hill trained to become a top, international award-winning climber by practicing at Yosemite should give something girl-power inspiring to the female viewers. She might have bigger arm muscles than the men in the film, and she mentions that she had zero body fat at the top of her game. It is easier to imagine how humans once climbed trees when somebody watches somebody like Hill speeding up a mountain without a harness. Title: Valley Uprising Directed by: Peter Mortimer and Nick Rosen Writer: Kathleen McGlaughlin, Peter Mortimer Stars: Peter Sarsgaard (narrator), Alex Honnold, Yvon Chouinard Genre: Documentary Running Time: 86 min Release: 2014 |
