Product Details

• Actors: First Ascent
• Directors: Sender Films
• Format: NTSC
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: Unrated
• Studio: Sender Films
• DVD Release Date: September 7, 2006
• Run Time: 90 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000IWPP4G
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #107,701 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

The "First Ascent" DVD features today's top rock climbers as they lay siege to steep faces and soaring alpine walls in pursuit of climbing's pinnacle achievement, the First Ascent. Mortimer brings us on a globetrotting journey to capture the laughs, the tears and the truly radical feats of men and woman on climbing's cutting edge.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

24 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars This is NOT "First Ascent: The Series", September 14, 2010

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Jim (USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: First Ascent DVD (DVD)

Note that this film is NOT Sender Films' "First Ascent: The Series" (2010)

The highly aclaimed 3-DVD, First Ascent: The Series, came out in September 2010 and includes the first ever ropeless climb of Yosemite's sheer 2,000 foot wall of Half Dome; the longest BASE jump achieved, from the infamous Eiger Nordwand; a tragic expedition to the lost peaks of Western China; and more.

The case even looks like this one, but it's not the same.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A lot of great climbing, October 5, 2008

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Sune Hermit - See all my reviews
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First ascent is a film that shows a lot of great climbing. From Dean Potters FA of The Tombstone in Utah to DWS in Thailand and a gripping account of the Cobra Crack's first ascent (8c+). I must also say that a few scenes in the film are a waste of time and are probably included in an attempt to add humour (i.e. "Human Ape", an idea to sell a urban climbing concept to Hollywood). In contrast a few other recent climbing films, First Ascent appears "homemade" in the sense that sometimes the director cheers for the climbers and comments on the climbing. This does no diminish the quality of the film, rather it makes it more real as if it's just a bunch of friends out climbing together. All in all I recommend this movie - the Cobra Crack account alone is worth the film in it self.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great climbing movie, full of personality., October 21, 2009

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Teckwolf "The Reader" (Bloomington) - See all my reviews

This review is from: First Ascent DVD (DVD)

Sure there are one or two corny parts, but overall this movie kicks ass. The climbing is intense, and you explore their personalities more than the traditional "sport documentary" type of film. Great scenery, excellent climbing, real struggle, a winner of a movie.