Product Details

• Actors: Kevin Jorgeson, Sean Jones, Yuji Hirayama, Hans Florine
• Directors: Eric Perlman
• Format: Widescreen, NTSC
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Number of discs: 1
• Studio: Eric Perlman Productions
• DVD Release Date: March 25, 2009
• Run Time: 106 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• ASIN: B0023TGXL6
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #218,880 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Once again, Masters of Stone breaks through to the cutting edge of the sport. Harder, Faster, Bolder, Newer, and more...six points of breakthrough in all.... where human edges toward the superhuman. Yuji Hirayama and American Hans Florine set a new speed record on the Nose of El Capitan in Yosemite, stretching their lead-outs by 60, 80, even 150 feet at a time as the crowd screams, "GO!" from below. This is the Super Bowl, Olympics, and Boston Marathon of rock climbing, all rolled into one. Kevin Jorgeson puts up one of the most beautiful highball boulder problems in the world at Lake Tahoe, California. Sean Jones adds a new inspiration rating to his first ascents on Half Dome and Ribbon Falls. BASE jumping way too close to the ground, Parkour on rock, serious free-soloing, amputee 5.13, roped free-falling and many more breakthroughs... More than any other sport, rock climbing continually redefines its rules and resets its limits. Yesterday's "impossible," becomes today's warm-up as advances in mental and physical mastery combine to break new ground. Every few years the MASTERS OF STONE series delivers a new episode that captures these breakthroughs in a tasty mix of music, character, commentary, and above all, visual action.

Customer Reviews

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing!, August 17, 2009

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neoplasia>2002 "Playtime's Over!!" (New York, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Masters of Stone VI Breakthrough (DVD)

I got this video mostly to whet my current fixation with Yosemite and primarily El Capitan. And whet it did :) The speed ascent by Yuji Hirayama and Hans Florine is spectacularly shot; offering great insight into speed climbing and big wall climbing in general. It's amazing that the first ascent of the Captain took over 44 days and these guys are now doing in under three hours !!! Mind boggling :) Yuji is a freakin machine :)

The Astroman free climb by Alex Honnold is pretty cool. There's some bouldering thrown in as well.

Great film.