Captain Kirk, Spock und "Pille" McCoy machen gemütlich Urlaub auf der guten alten Erde; währenddessen geht auf der funkelnagelneuen Enterprise alles drunter und drüber, weil längst noch nicht alles funktioniert wie es soll. Mitten in dieses Chaos platzt ein verrückter Vulkanier namens Sybok, der die Enterprise entführt, um ins Zentrum des Universums vorzudringen. Sein Ziel heißt Shkari, der Planet der hinter den Grenzen liegt, die noch kein Sterblicher überschritten hat. Der fanatische Sybok glaubt fest daran, dass er auf Shakari dem Schöpfer allen Lebens gegenübertreten wird - Sybok sucht Gott. Für Kirk und Co. bedeutet dies der Anfang der erstaunlichsten Reise, die die Enterprise und ihre Besatzung jemals unternommen haben...
Free-Solo-Kletterer Alex Honnold bereitet sich im Sommer 2017 auf die Erfüllung seines Lebenstraums vor. Er will den bekanntesten Felsen der Welt erklimmen, den 975 Meter hohen und fast senkrechten El Capitan im Yosemite-Nationalpark in Kalifornien. Free Solo bedeutet: im Alleingang, ohne Seil und ohne Sicherung.
Im Januar 2015 beginnen die amerikanischen Bergsteiger Tommy Caldwell und Kevin Jorgeson ihren Aufstieg an der sogenannten Dawn Wall, einer der Felswände an der berühmten Felsformation El Capitan im kalifornischen Yosemite-Nationalpark. Insgesamt 19 Tage dauert der Aufstieg und während dieser Zeit leben die Männer an der steilen Felswand – sie schlafen in einem Zelt, das am Felsen befestigt wird. Vor allem Caldwell wird dabei von seiner traumatischen Vergangenheit angetrieben: Im Alter von 22 Jahren wurde er in Kirgisistan von Rebellen gefangen genommen, verlor einige Jahre später einen Zeigefinger und musste zudem das Ende seiner Ehe mit seiner langjährigen Kletterpartnerin verkraften.
Conrad Anker is one of the greatest and most notorious professional mountain climbers in history. But at 54, his career in the big mountains is winding down, especially after suffering a heart attack on a climb high in the Himalayas. His friend Alex Wildman is a novice big-wall climber and cardiac nurse with his own history of traumatic illness. Together, they team up to support each other on a climb up Yosemite's El Capitan in Yosemite Valley.
In a battle for El Cap’s coveted Nose speed record, rock legends Tommy Caldwell and Alex Honnold go head to head with Yosemite dirtbags Jim Reynolds and Brad Gobright. Highball bouldering ace Nina Williams flexes her guns and tests her nerves well into the no-fall zone. In rural Utah, conservative Mormon coal miners collide with an influx of out-of-town climbers - with surprising results. And two adventurous Brits, Hazel Findlay and Maddy Cope, pursue first ascents in wild and remote Mongolia.
BRAVE NEW WILD is an offbeat chronicle of America’s Golden Age of rock climbing before and after the controversial ascent of the Dawn Wall in 1970. Some forty years later, Oakley Anderson-Moore, the daughter of a pioneering climber, stumbles upon her father's old hi8 tapes, and sets out to answer the question: why climb when there's nothing to gain -- and everything to lose? Wry humor and an eclectic original soundtrack punctuate the delinquent antics of the Vulgarians in the ‘Gunks, the larger-than-life rivalry of Yosemite’s rock gods, and the fruit tramping, freight train hopping hobodom of her dad’s climbing life. This film is quintessential viewing for those who long for adventure.
Jim Bridwell was one of the best climbers in the world in the 70s, 80s. The documentary chronicles Bridwell's career from those early days to his final ascents in 2001. The film traces Jim Bridwell's journey through numerous interviews with other legendary free climbing personalities such as Leo Houlding and Ron Kauk. See him climb some of Yosemite's historic routes with today's young climbers paying homage to this true legend of free climbing. In an unpublished document from 1981, he is seen in one of his famous Zodiac ascents in El Capitan with and Fred East.
Feel the rush of the breathtakingly beautiful National Parks of California with one deep breath of the summer air.
The amazing story of the epic first ascent of 'The Prophet' on El Capitan, Yosemite. Following the UK's top big wall climber Leo Houlding as he revisits his 10 year project; 'The Prophet', an exceptionally steep, loose and difficult route on the east face of Yosemite's El Cap. Leo describes the route as 'the wildest climb I've ever been on'. This has to be seen to be believed, crazy climbing. Extended cut 48mins.
For decades, an elite handful of climbers have competed for the coveted speed record on the 3,000-foot Nose of El Capitan, risking big falls to shave mere seconds off the fastest time. When a record held by superstar Alex Honnold is broken by little-known climbers Brad Gobright and Jim Reynolds, Honnold drafts fellow climbing legend Tommy Caldwell to establish a new mark that will stand the test of time. Honnold pushes for perfection while Caldwell, a family man, wrestles with the risk amid a series of accidents on the wall that lay bare the consequences of any mistake.