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Movies about climbing or that have climbing in them?

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Sunny-D · · SLC, Utah · Joined Aug 2006 · Points: 700

I am looking for movies that are about climbing or have climbing scenes in them?
Alien vs. Predetor
Cliff Hanger
K2
Vertical Limit
Seven Years in Tibet
Eiger Sanction
Failure to Launch
For your Eyes Only (James Bond)
Third Man on the Mountain

I know there are a ton out there and I need MP'ers Help finding them.

Peter Franzen · · Phoenix, AZ · Joined Jan 2001 · Points: 3,730
The Descent has some climbing in it.
Jeremy Monahan · · Fort Collins, CO · Joined May 2002 · Points: 410

Take It To The Limit. Possibly the worst movie I have watched, this cinematic excretion redefines cheesy, and takes toproping to new heights of ridiculous.

imdb.com/video/screenplay/v…

Erik W · · Santa Cruz, CA · Joined Mar 2007 · Points: 280
The Mountain. Cool movie to watch... much better than the standard crap about climbing. Although Eiger Sanction was cool too.
Daniel Trugman · · Reno, NV · Joined Oct 2007 · Points: 1,225

Mission Impossible 2 has a (free-solo) climbing scene at the beginning.

Buff Johnson · · Unknown Hometown · Joined Dec 2005 · Points: 1,145

Star Trek!!

Adam Block · · Tucson, AZ · Joined Jul 2008 · Points: 1,180
Jeremy Monahan wrote:Take It To The Limit. Possibly the worst movie I have watched, this cinematic excretion redefines cheesy, and takes toproping to new heights of ridiculous. imdb.com/video/screenplay/v…
Seriously, that's a real movie? WTF!

"Up 5% in popularity this week. See why on IMDbPro."

My guess would be because of your post!
Will Butler · · Lyons, CO · Joined Sep 2005 · Points: 56

Scrapple has some great scenes of climbing on the Ophir Wall outside Telluride. One of the best mountain culture movies ever.

Woodchuck ATC · · Unknown Hometown · Joined Nov 2007 · Points: 3,280

Double Jeopardy....several movies took that name, but this one has I think a Judd sister in it. Opening scenes with a dumbass climbing disaster again....and then they stole the same idea for Vertical Limit a couple years later. Must be hard to find original material when it comes to a hollywood climbing movie.
AND you can't forget the awesome episode of Seinfeld where George and Kramer go rock climbing. Kramer in lycra, that's worth it alone.

John Bradbury · · Unknown Hometown · Joined Mar 2007 · Points: 380

Axe
The Descent
Wrong Turn
North by Northwest
The Princess Bride
The Good Son
Deliverance
The Day the Earth Stood Still
Touching the Void
The White Tower
High Conquest
The Challenge
Scream of Stone
Tristan und Isolde
The Golden Compass
Storm and Sorrow
Summer of Storms
The Bat
A breed Apart
Shoot to Kill
Saftey Last
The Mission
The Mountain
Guns of Navarone
Seven Years in Tibet

Mark Cushman · · Cumming, GA · Joined Sep 2006 · Points: 980
Deliverance

Mr. and Mrs. Smith - Angelina Jolie shows how EXTREEM she is by rock climbing on her "vacation"
Aimee Bates · · Unknown Hometown · Joined Sep 2008 · Points: 165

Pretty sweet climbing by Matthew Mcconaughey in Failure to Launch. Lol.

James Beissel · · Boulder, CO · Joined Aug 2004 · Points: 905

nobody mentioned "Everest"
(not the documentary, the one with William Shatner and the guy from 90210)

Jim Gloeckler · · Denver, Colo. · Joined Jul 2004 · Points: 25

One other bond movie when he is buildering in Vegas with a gun that shoots pitons. Forgot the title.

Jerry W · · Rapid City, SD · Joined May 2006 · Points: 95

"Cerro Torre: Schrei aus Stein", by Herzog no less.

Strange movie; not great. If it hadn't been 11:00 pm in Nipigon in March I probably would have tried to find something better to do. Lots of great footage of Stefan Glowacz soloing though. imdb.com/title/tt0102855/pl…

Chris Wenker · · Santa Fe · Joined Dec 2007 · Points: 1,887

The White Hell of Pitz Palu

The Wonderful, Horrible Life of Leni Riefenstahl

KevinCO · · Loveland, CO · Joined Mar 2006 · Points: 60

'Five Days One Summer'

imdb.com/title/tt0083947/

The only one i could think of that hasn't been listed. (Which Bond movie has the climbing scenes on the conglomerate towers in Greece?)

...except for maybe 'Alive' and 'Seven Years in Tibet' and 'Nordwand'

'The Mountain' is a classic (and it teaches you to use gloves while hip belaying).

cjdrover · · Watertown, MA · Joined Feb 2009 · Points: 355

The Cave - Trad leading underground, and I can't remember, but there might even be ice climbing, too. Oh, and mutated Spetznaz devil creatures.

John mac · · Boulder, CO · Joined Oct 2008 · Points: 105

300

I saw an episode of MacGyver where he uses tent stakes for petons! Awesome.

Jeremy H · · Unknown Hometown · Joined Jul 2007 · Points: 350
R. Moran · · Moab , UT · Joined Mar 2009 · Points: 140

Anything with Ron Jeremy. I have climbed sport routes shorter than that.

Guideline #1: Don't be a jerk.

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