Push the Lines - Three friends. One winter line. Years in the making.

A film about commitment, and the screaming barfies are the proof. Jesse Huey, Matt Segal and Quentin Roberts return over several winters to one mixed line on the Diamond of Longs Peak in Colorado, working ice tools and rock moves in alpine winter until they finally free it. Jon Glassberg shoots and edits.

This is for climbers who want to see how mixed technique, route finding on a high face and team dynamics combine when one objective takes years. The approach storms, the bivies and the repeated physical collapses are all here. Skip it if you need a grade. The film does not publish one for the line, and that gap is real for anyone trying to place the ascent.

What works is the grind. Winter big wall mixed climbing is mostly suffering in the cold, and the film does not cut the suffering to get to the send. The moments of collapse are included, and they make the free ascent mean something. What it gets wrong is the line itself. Twenty-seven minutes and I could not describe the route to you, which for a film about one route is a problem.

FIRST ASCENT on America's Highest Big Wall is the summer version of the same wall: Chris Weidner and Bruce Miller freeing Gambler's Fallacy at 5.13b after four seasons. Watch the two together. The Diamond in July and the Diamond in February are two different mountains.