Filmmaker
La Sportiva
Outdoor Sporting Goods Company
One film from La Sportiva.
- Founded
- 1928
- Based in
- Ziano di Fiemme
- Country
- Italy
La Sportiva is an Italian footwear and outdoor company founded in 1928 and based in Ziano di Fiemme; the brand’s verified profile positions it within the technical-climbing and mountain footwear world. In this catalog the company appears as a commissioning entity for athlete-focused short films that look at climbers’ lives as much as specific ascents.
The catalog’s sole La Sportiva entry, Connor Herson: Traditional at Heart, is a short athlete portrait produced by Double H Productions for La Sportiva. The film profiles Connor Herson’s development across bouldering, sport climbs, and big-wall trad in Yosemite, and frames those threads against his parallel life as a Stanford student. Rather than being a single-ascent highlight reel, the film treats scheduling, priorities, and context as the subject: how a climber navigates studies, travel, and a broad set of disciplines.
If you’re interested in how modern climbers build a mixed portfolio of accomplishments—linking outdoor objectives with academic commitments and personal background—this film makes that trade-off explicit. It foregrounds conversation and context alongside climbing footage, offering insight into the upbringing, decision-making, and logistical realities behind an emerging American trad and big-wall climber.
