Attempting to Free Climb a Patagonian Bigwall

In 2010, Mason Earle went to Patagonia with George Ullrich and Peter Rhodes to try the first free ascent of Cerro Catedral. The three of them cut this film themselves as soon as they got off the wall, and Earle only posted it to his own channel fifteen years later, dated look and all. That provenance is the appeal. There is no distributor, no narration written after the fact, no tidy arc imposed on the trip once everyone knew how it ended. It is a big wall attempt filmed by the people making it, in the register climbers actually use with each other. Worth watching if you like your expedition footage first-hand and unpolished rather than scored and graded.