Should you watch The Dawn Wall?
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The Dawn Wall
Documentary · 2017
In an unbelievable story of perseverance, free climber Tommy Caldwell and climbing partner Kevin Jorgeson attempt to scale the impossible 3000ft Dawn Wall of El Capitan.
The sides of The Dawn Wall
- Two climbers on a three thousand foot wall
- Nineteen days living in tents hung off granite
- A climber who lost a finger
The Dawn Wall is good for you if…
- you want the real footage of a climb nobody had done before.
- you like El Capitan, Yosemite and a wall of bare granite.
- you want two men sleeping on the side of a cliff for weeks to get up it.
The Dawn Wall is bad for you if…
- you can't look at two men hanging hundreds of metres above the ground.
- you'd rather not watch a marriage come apart between two climbs.
About: perseverance · friendship · fear
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