Climbing in Dyer's Lookout

Dyer’s Lookout appears here through an excerpt from the Brit Rock collection: director Alastair Lee follows Anna Hazlett on an ascent of James Pearson’s the Walk of Life in Devon in the film titled Anna Hazelnutt climbs the Walk of Life. The seacliff setting and the blank slab that the route negotiates are presented with careful lighting and composed framing, so the rock reads as a studied surface rather than a backdrop.

The eight-minute excerpt emphasizes the technical demands of slab climbing and the visual vocabulary of British cliff film — long lenses, light off the water, and the quiet moments between moves. Tom Randall appears alongside Hazlett, and the full piece also touches on a day on Jonny Dawes’s the Quarryman; the short format concentrates on a single landmark ascent and the moment in which a climber’s trajectory becomes visible on film. Hazlett releasing the clip on her own channel, with Lee’s approval, reinforces the sense that this is a peer-to-peer document of an important climb in a developing career.